Chlorine is not the problem!
Posted on 11/30/2010 8:30:01 PM PST by ruralvoter
Fiji Water, owned by part-time Aspenites Lynda and Stewart Resnick, has suspended operations at its bottling plant on Viti Levu, the largest of the Republic of Fiji’s islands, after the Fijian government dramatically hiked taxes on the company.
Fiji has been ruled by a military junta since 2006 and on Friday, the government announced that starting in 2011, any company that extracts more than 3.5 million liters (920,000 gallons) of water a month would pay a tax of 15 cents per liter, up from the current .11 cents — a 45-fold increase.
Fiji Water is the only company on the island that extracts that much water. The company has sold over 1.1 billion bottles of water since 1996 and 90 percent of its business has been in the U.S.
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WTF are we buying bottled water for? , Let alone buying it from Fiji? American consumers are effin stoopid.
Update on this situation. Fiji Water owners will NOT quit operations of Fiji Water. This AP article also shows other issues that have occured on Fiji.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101201/ap_on_bi_ge/as_fiji_fiji_water
The packaging is pretty. Many are distracted by shiny objects and such.
Can’t comment about Fiji.
I’ll give you 2 reasons, chlorine and fluoride.
We lived in a small city apartment while building our house, and it came with city water on tap. It’s nasty stuff!! I ended up buying Meijer you-fill water by the jug for making coffee, cooking and drinking. Sams was my source of bags of ice.
They sell a lot of bottled water in Jackson, MI. Even now, when eating out, I ask the waitress if the iced tea water is filtered.
"Purity of Essence, Mandrake.... On no account will a Commie ever drink water, and not without good reason.... Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face?"
I have bought Fiji while on the road, and I have to say it tastes better than most other bottled water to me. I’m pretty sensitive to tastes, so I don’t think this is a placebo effect. In any case, I wasn’t aware of the political issues in Fiji. I’ll be reading up on it out of curiosity.
Chlorine is not the problem!
You ever see a Commie drink water, Mandrake?
But I don’t think buying jugs of filtered water from the local grocery store has anything to do with American idiots who buy water from a 3” spigot pipe in a tin sheathed insect ridden warehouse in Fiji.
The prescious bodily fluid scene!!!!! I loved it.
No matter, any idiot who buys bottled H2O in a plastic bottle from an unknown source deserves...
The business owners caved and the people who buy Fiji water will pay the tax.
I keep several Perrier bottles in the frige at all times. Keep filling them up with tap water. Never had a complaint.
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It reminded me of that old Stephen Wright bit on buying a humidifier and a dehumidifier just to watch them compete.
I drank most of my life from a point driven well that I drove. The water was like liquid rock it was so hard. The calcium / lime content was so high it clogged up valves. When you ran the dishwasher and the softener ran out of salt the glassware was so chalked up you couldn't see thru it anymore.
Water is a funny thing. It's like a cocktail of minerals in solution. Then we spend a fortune to remove them, municipalities add some bad things that end with "ine" (usually not good) and then we take an expensive pill to replace the good things we removed?
>>>Update on this situation. Fiji Water owners will NOT quit operations of Fiji Water. This AP article also shows other issues that have occured on Fiji.
Thank goodness! I was getting thirsty, already...
Fiji tastes oily to me. I can pick out Poland Springs every time, and I’m a disgusting snob about it.
Best bottled water I ever had.
I must agree, I’ve had Fiji water in the past and it just taste different and so good.
I drink bottled water - the town sends 3X5 cards out around two times a year telling the citizenry that the ‘poop’ levels were too high a couple of months before - ever since the first 3X5 card it’s been bottled for drinking water.
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