Nestlé paid as little as $200/year for permits to pump hundreds of thousands of gallons per minute from aquifers, depleting local water tables in Michigan, California, and Oregon. In Canada, they paid $3.71 per million litres. At the 2000 World Water Forum, Nestlé successfully lobbied to change water's designation from a 'human right' to a 'human need.' Their chairman later called the idea of water as a human right 'extreme.' Indigenous communities were particularly devastated as their water sources were bottled and sold back to them.