Comments on: Clean Water for Fiji http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/06/24/clean-water-for-fiji/ Tapping experts in climate, geology, oceanography, ecology, sustainable development, global health, energy, food and water, State of the Planet captures stories of how the Earth works and how we can sustainably make our lives better. Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:28:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Kai http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/06/24/clean-water-for-fiji/comment-page-1/#comment-17920 Kai Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:51:00 +0000 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=15798#comment-17920 Thanks for the update, Ben, and glad to hear that the water extraction tax is being put to good use (fingers crossed). It’s only the rational (and right) thing to do and proves that sometimes regulations and/or taxation are the only ways to get corporations to conform to appropriate, responsible behavior. Of course, the Fijian strongmen running the govt. aren’t themselves paragons of reliability.

The Resnicks and their holding company, Roll Intl., make big money from large freshwater withdrawals not only in Fiji, but also in CA’s Central Valley where they control water rights for major agricultural production. In both cases, the residents surrounding these operations are subject to a supply of inadequate, low-quality drinking water.

http://www.ecocentricblog.org/2010/12/20/fiji-water-and-its-parent-company-leave-locals-high-and-dry/

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