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What Is The True Cost Of Fiji Water?

by David Allen on Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Mineral water has been around forever, but putting into bottles and sending half way around the world is a new phenomenon, but this has not gone un-noticed by everyone. Yes, this water is a fine way of refreshing yourself, but only if you was walking around countryside of Fiji.

 

 

So what happens to bring this water to your table? First of all the bottles are transported from China to Fiji, where they are filled with the lovely water, this uses five litres of water to produce just one litre of this water. Now the bottled water has to be transported to the retailers this can be as much ten thousand miles, all this for a $1.30 bottle of water! Only you know if it is worth the production costs in both money and carbon emissions.

 

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  • So the costs and impacts include burning oil to make the plastic, more petroleum to ship it, and then most (by industry reports) recyclable bottles end up in waste dumps where they don't decompose.

    Get a water bottle of your own and a good filter to take out chlorine and fluoride and fill your bottles at home with filtered tap water. Your pocketbook and your health will be in better condition. Please visit www.friendsofwater.com/Bottled_Water.html for more information.

    At least Fiji water is reported to be good water. Lots of other types are actually contaminate in one way or another.
  • Keoni
    I read that the plastic shipped from China are small pellets which are hand blown by Fijian-owned companies. So there's not much shipping. There's also the production water/drinkable water ratio for a lot of sources -- including tap.
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