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> Florida should prioritize providing safe drinking water for its residents, rather than bottling that water to resell elsewhere. Does bottled water actually g
by creato 7y ago
> Florida should prioritize providing safe drinking water for its residents, rather than bottling that water to resell elsewhere.
Does bottled water actually get exported/shipped long distances?
- chrisseaton 7y ago> Does bottled water actually get exported/shipped long distances? Have you ever seen Fiji water?
- creato 7y agoThat is exactly why I thought most bottled water is not exported/shipped long distances: I thought Fiji was an outlier in this industry.
- chrisseaton 7y agoAre you joking? Evian. Perrier. Volvic. Massive export water brands shipped all around the world to probably every country on earth.
- creato 7y agoThose all still seem small compared to the "common" bottled water brands that you can get everywhere, which I thought were bottled relatively locally.
- chrisseaton 7y agoWhat common brands can you get in more places than Evian?
- skyyler 7y agoMost bottled water isn't shipped long distances but name brand "designer" water isn't limited to Fiji. Perrier, Voss, Evian, and Sanpellegrino are all major bottled water brands marketed in the US that send their water across an ocean.
- markdown 7y agoWhile Fiji is a good example, it should be noted that their impact isn't as big as people think, mostly because they fill up ships that would otherwise return to the US anyway. The return trips used to be mostly empty, now they carry Fiji Water. (Yes the added weight means more fuel is burned)
- newnewpdro 7y ago> (Yes the added weight means more fuel is burned) Wouldn't those ships require ballast anyways? It's a stability issue to be completely empty with such large displacement shipping vessels.
- markdown 7y agoGood point
- dawnerd 7y agoConsidering the largest offender is Nestle, I'd say yes. Bottled water here in Oregon almost always comes from California - which is a bit insane when we have so much water here locally.
- seltzered_ 7y agoIn central Washington State, there was some recent debate over Crystal Geyser setting up a plant in Randle, WA: http://www.nwhikers.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8029750&start=30 http://www.nwhikers.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8029750&start... I hadn't kept up with the story since first hearing about it from locals running a petition - Interestingly there's a peer into the negotiation tactics due to an email slip: http://www.chronline.com/news/crystal-geyser-mistakenly-emails-chronicle-randle-bottling-project-likely-dead/article_cd562296-a434-11e9-85e8-03a953d811a6.html http://www.chronline.com/news/crystal-geyser-mistakenly-emai... https://kuow.org/stories/with-a-mistaken-email-crystal-geyser-bubbles-up-controversy https://kuow.org/stories/with-a-mistaken-email-crystal-geyse... Crystal was working on this for a while - they were bringing in fiber optic lines into Randle months beforehand, seemed to be on the mayor's good side. The interesting thing is wondering how it riled up people that I think are right-of-center non-environmental types. I remember hearing lines akin to 'a Japanese company is coming into our town' (Crystal Geyser is "is a wholly owned subsidiary of Japanese pharmaceutical company, Otsuka Holdings" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Geyser_Water_Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Geyser_Water_Company).
- briffle 7y agoNestle did try to build a bottling plant near hood river a few years ago. They were going to draw water from a tributary that would have affected spawning salmon and steelhead. The county passed a ballot measure that no commercial water bottling could happen in Hood River County.
- CameronNemo 7y agoI guess California does not have enough salmon to care (nobody likes the smelt :/ ), or the farms are taking so much water that bottling is paltry in comparison.
- Spooky23 7y agoI just was just given a bottle of Nestle water in North Carolina, it was from a Florida.
- twothumbsup 7y agowhich Florida.