When I saw the opening few minutes of this documentary, I thought it was going to be a back slapper, and nearly turned it off. I'm glad I didn't.

It turned out to be exactly what I expected it to be, a damning account of one of the greediest corporations on this planet. I wonder if, in the interveining years (I'm viewing in 2021),have they classified air as a foodstuff, and found a way to steal it and sell it?

I would gladly invite them to my country (Ireland) and steal all my water. The only price they would have to pay? Drain Lake Geneva and Lake Constance.

They can leave the rest of their lakes alone, I wouldn't like the Swiss Nation to die of thirst, or burn alive because of forest fires; unlike what has happened, and continues to happen worldwide, because of Nestle's unwanted intrusion.

I would not be surprised if Nestlé engages in shady business practices or environmental damage, but this "exposé" actually substantiates nothing. Rather than interview hydrologists, lawyers, economists, and whistle-blowers, activists and random people are interviewed. Most just present NIMBY blabbering or rants against "corporate exploitation". Nestlé invested enormous labor into building an organization that produces profits, and that is "unfair". 3rd world countries lack clean water, and it's "unfair" that Nestlé's excellent product costs money. A weak effort to appear unbiased is made by mentioning the jobs and taxes Nestlé generates, though any benefit is dismissed as a capitalist trick. Certainly there are questions raised about water access and corporate taxation, but those are not Nestlé's problems to solve. There are hints in the documentary that Nestlé might be depleting water supplies, undermining the democratic process, etc., but nothing more than hints, because the documentary lacks any reason for being made other than to obstruct business, apparently so that the water can peacefully live underground. Technically, the documentary is mediocre at best, and the director's repeated attempts to get a statement from Nestle are amateurish. Nestle doesn't owe anyone its time, just like it doesn't owe anyone water.

I don't have much to say about the documentary itself but quite a lot about the business.

Here in India we had a big controversy about Coca Cola corporation's water bottling business. In Kerala they extracted so much ground water for their purpose that it created almost drought conditions in the surrounding areas on Kerala.

City of Chennai has had perpetual shortage of potable water. A little while ago a million liters per day desalination plant was installed on the outskirts. The total cost of the process amounted to to a mere US$ 1.00 for 100 liters. What is being sold in the market costs around US$0.20 per 1 liter bottle.

I would most certainly blame the politicians too for granting industrial licenses to big time companies, multinationals and local variety, for this catastrophe. If I had it my way I would grant licenses for setting plants only for bottling desalinated purified water at least located at least 100 miles away from any populated area!