#COMM101 assignment# Business ethics

Wild West’ of groundwater: Billion-dollar Nestlé extracting B.C.’s drinking water for free .

In the passage, we can see that Nestle has against the external part of business ethics in  two areas, the customer ethics as well as the environmental ethics. They sell bottle water to the customers at a price even higher then gasoline, but actually, they cost nothing for the  water. We cannot say that in this situation,  they deceive the customer, but we can say that it is unfair to both the costomers and other corporations that compete with them. Also, because that B.C.’s lack of groundwater regulation, they get  water without control. Although they said that they are prepared to hand in the permit , but it doesn’t mean that they care about the environment, care about how much ground water they can take. This is where they against the environmental ethics. I think Nestlé has the responsibility to obey the moral rule of the ethics of business but not to focus on their profit as much as possible.

 

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