Idea 9: Allow Scottish Water to produce, bottle and sell its own water to restaurants and all public sector buildings

Allow Scottish Water to produce, bottle and sell its own water to restaurants and all public sector buildings.

Bottled water is, apparently, the item with the largest single mark-up on the supermarket shelves. Scotland is awash with water. Scottish Water doesn’t sell it in bottles but requires huge public sector subsidy to function. The public sector is responsible for over 50% of GDP in Scotland and uses lots of bottled water.

Discuss.