LETTER: Water really belongs to all of us

In the Sunday letters to the editor, there again were a couple about the proposed bottling plant.

I think I have read every article pertaining to it and all the letters. It will not directly affect me, but I have a real problem with the concept that just because people sink a well on their property, they can pump all the water they want and not just what they need.

I am of the opinion that the water really belongs to all of us. Give a man dying of thirst a cup of water or a pound of gold and I bet he would take the water every time — that’s how precious it is. We absolutely cannot live without it.

In one of the letters, the writer — and I have no way of knowing if he or she is correct — stated this bottling plant wanted to produce 140,000 bottles of water an hour for 24 hours a day and seven days a week. Even if they are recyclable, I doubt if many will be. Do we really need all those millions more of those damn bottles littering the country or the world, for that matter?

Of course it’s all about the money and I don’t know the man who wants to do this, so I can’t say it’s greed, but it kind of reminds me of the farmers in the Southwest who have sold their lands and water to the Saudis. It was not because they needed the money — they just did not care that a resource this country really needed went somewhere else as long as they could make a obscene profit. There’s not a lot of difference between that and here in Flathead County as I see it.

—Glen Hook, Kalispell