A dry, hot summer focused much-needed attention on Ontarios shrinking water supply and the companies making a killing by tapping our most precious resource for next to nothing and selling it to us in bottles. Who are these new water barons? Government records reveal the most active takers of Ontarios water.
Number of permits 3, issued between April 2011 and December 2013
Expiry date August 31, 2017. Nestle continues to take water despite the expiration of two permits.
Source Groundwater, Guelph, Puslinch and Erin in Wellington County
Allowable daily take 8.3 million litres
Days of the year 365
Permits 4, issued between November 2007 and November 2015
Expiry date October 31, 2017
Source Groundwater, Oro-Medonte, Simcoe County
Allowable daily take 3.4 million litres
Days of the year 365
Permits 6, issued between December 2009 and February 2014
Expiry dates May 2017 (2), July 2021 (2) and May 2022 (2)
Source Groundwater, Amaranth, Dufferin County Grey Highlands, Grey County Alnwick/Haldimand, Northumberland County
Allowable daily take 3.1 million litres
Days of the year 365
Permits 2, issued May 2006
Expiry date May 19, 2016
Source Groundwater, Grey Highlands, Grey County
Allowable daily take 2.2 million litres
Days of the year 365
Permits 2, issued January 2011
Expiry date July 2021
Source Groundwater, Amaranth, Dufferin County
Allowable daily take 652,000 litres
Days of the year 365
Permits 2, issued between June and August 2007
Expiry dates March 2017 and July 2017
Source Groundwater, Caledon, Regional Municipality of Peel Erin, Wellington County
Allowable daily take 588,680 litres
Days of the year 260
Number of permits 3, issued June 2004
Expiry date May 2017
Source Groundwater, Alnwick/ Haldimand, Northumberland County
Allowable daily take 401,600 litres
Days of the year 365
Date issued February 2007
Expiry date February 2017
Source Groundwater, artesian well, South Bruce, Bruce County
Allowable daily take 327,600 litres
Days of the year 360
Permits 6
Dates issued Between June 2007 and May 2010
Expiry dates Between May and June 2017
Source Groundwater, District of Parry Sound
Allowable daily take 299,520 litres
Days of the year 365
Permits 4, issued April 2015
Expiry date March 2025
Source Groundwater, spring, Quinte West, Hastings County
Allowable daily take 288,153 litres
Days of the year 365
