BUSINESS Greens have ‘rushed’ into bottled water policy: PM 10 Jul, 2017 9:04am 2 minutes to read Prime Minister Bill English says he is surprised the Green Party has “rushed” into a policy to charge water bottlers 10 cents a litre on sales and exports of bottled water. “This is an area where it is easy to sound off about a few bottled water companies, but the Greens policy has huge implications right across the productive sector,” English told Newstalk ZB today. “I am surprised they have rushed in on this tax on all water policy. Because it raises all the issues…like who owns it, who gets the revenue, if you put a royalty on that then what do you do about the foreign-owned company that is putting…