You feel confident enough to know what a 10 is ? In all my years of chronic illness I ' ve learnt that no matter how bad the pain is , it can always , always get worse . I call a 10 for the worst pain ever but half an hour later it ' s even worse . My 10 a decade ago would barely make a 5 today . <| sep |> it is really <| sep |> Yeah but we actually need food , and profit significantly from it ' s export . You make it out to be like we are making a dollar per bushel of grain . We don ' t . Some corporation does . That corporation pays taxes on profits . This is no different than Nestle . A Farm takes water , makes a product , sells a product , pays taxes . A water plant takes water , makes a product , sells a product , pays taxes . Empirically they are no different . Furthermore more tax revenue is probably made more from the water bottle business than the farm business , considering that most farms have pritty low tax rates . Furthermore you ' re presenting a false dichotomy . Farms and bottled water plants need not compete for water resources . Also , agricultural water use reintroduces most the water back in to the local sources , as opposed to bottling and shipping it to other countries entirelyAnd bottled water still is infinitely smaller than those amounts .