Published On: August 1st, 2013
On August 14th, 2013, The Province published the article “The ‘Wild West’ of groundwater: Billion-dollar Nestlé extracting B.C.’s drinking water for free.” The WSP’s Ben Parfitt is quoted in the piece, discussing the need for mandatory reporting of groundwater withdrawals in the province.
The POLIS Water Sustainability Project is a focused initiative of the POLIS Project on Ecological Governance.
POLIS is one of the ongoing interdisciplinary projects at the University of Victoria’s Centre for Global Studies.
The University of Victoria is located on Lekwungen territory and traditional lands of the Songhees, Esquimalt, and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples.