It's not weird, it's just an example of how the modern society treat anything with sufficient scale as public resources just by scale and reach, and how little

It's not weird, it's just an example of how the modern society treat anything with sufficient scale as public resources just by scale and reach, and how little it cares about private corporate rights. You run the water to a town and the town now owns it. If it didn't, the town regulates it to the point you're essentially owned by the town, and the result is the same.