Ron Paul drinks Fiji water

[The One]

I'm always suspicious of men in tights

I'm always suspicious of women with adam's apples!!

 

[clouds]

I'm always suspicious of women with adam's apples!!

why would any women take poor adam's apples?

I'm always suspicious of women with too much makeup!

 

[Mom4Ron]

This thread is makin me thirsty.

 

[The One]

Bump.....going for 5,000 views on Ron Paul's bottled water preference.

 

[The One]

C'mon....show the Fiji water some love.

 

[The One]

Anybody care to read about RP's fluid intake????

 

[The One]

Boards are a little slow....looks like it's time to break out the ole Fiji water thread again. Bwahahahahaha!!!!!

C'mon guys....get it to 5,000 views. I just gotta see this pointless, dumbass thread reach 5,000 views before I die.

 

[Cowlesy]

hmm.

 

[LibertiORDeth]

Boards are a little slow....looks like it's time to break out the ole Fiji water thread again. Bwahahahahaha!!!!!

C'mon guys....get it to 5,000 views. I just gotta see this pointless, dumbass thread reach 5,000 views before I die.

I was wondering why this had so many views...

 

[The One]

hmm.

What does this mean? Did I do something wrong?

 

[Cowlesy]

I was wondering why this had so many views...

I hope it dies --- but, we're nice here and allow a lot of posting-freedom. If it goes into a new debate, so be it!

 

[LibertiORDeth]

Boards are a little slow....looks like it's time to break out the ole Fiji water thread again. Bwahahahahaha!!!!!

C'mon guys....get it to 5,000 views. I just gotta see this pointless, dumbass thread reach 5,000 views before I die.

Well you reached it.

 

[LibertiORDeth]

Well you reached it.

almost at least.

 

[Tom228]

It's just water...

 

[The One]

bump

 

[The One]

bump for hydration

 

[Zippyjuan]

I find it interesting that we send waste plastic to China who turns it into plastic bottles which are then sent to Fiji, filled with water and sent back to us where we pay more than the price of gas to drink. It is easier to find good Fiji water here than it is to find it in Fiji. How's that for ironic?
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/117/features-message-in-a-bottle.html?page=0,1

And in Fiji, a state-of-the-art factory spins out more than a million bottles a day of the hippest bottled water on the U.S. market today, while more than half the people in Fiji do not have safe, reliable drinking water. Which means it is easier for the typical American in Beverly Hills or Baltimore to get a drink of safe, pure, refreshing Fiji water than it is for most people in Fiji.

From further in the article,

The label on a bottle of Fiji Water says "from the islands of Fiji." Journey to the source of that water, and you realize just how extraordinary that promise is. From New York, for instance, it is an 18-hour plane ride west and south (via Los Angeles) almost to Australia, and then a four-hour drive along Fiji's two-lane King's Highway.

Every bottle of Fiji Water goes on its own version of this trip, in reverse, although by truck and ship. In fact, since the plastic for the bottles is shipped to Fiji first, the bottles' journey is even longer. Half the wholesale cost of Fiji Water is transportation--which is to say, it costs as much to ship Fiji Water across the oceans and truck it to warehouses in the United States than it does to extract the water and bottle it.

That is not the only environmental cost embedded in each bottle of Fiji Water. The Fiji Water plant is a state-of-the-art facility that runs 24 hours a day. That means it requires an uninterrupted supply of electricity--something the local utility structure cannot support. So the factory supplies its own electricity, with three big generators running on diesel fuel. The water may come from "one of the last pristine ecosystems on earth," as some of the labels say, but out back of the bottling plant is a less pristine ecosystem veiled with a diesel haze.

Each water bottler has its own version of this oxymoron: that something as pure and clean as water leaves a contrail.

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Of course, the irony of shipping a precious product from a country without reliable water service is hard to avoid. This spring, typhoid from contaminated drinking water swept one of Fiji's islands, sickening dozens of villagers and killing at least one. Fiji Water often quietly supplies emergency drinking water in such cases. The reality is, if Fiji Water weren't tapping its aquifer, the underground water would slide into the Pacific Ocean, somewhere just off the coast. But the corresponding reality is, someone else--the Fijian government, an NGO--could be tapping that supply and sending it through a pipe to villagers who need it. Fiji Water has, in fact, done just that, to some degree--20 water projects in the five nearby villages. Indeed, Roll has reinvested every dollar of profit since 2004 back into the business and the island.

 

[clouds]

i actually bought the magazine with that article in it when i saw it. my parents took it to work to show a bunch of people and never returned it. sweet

 

[CurtisLow]

The One........ Do you work for the company? Get over it!

When I was a kid, I would sit in the bathtub and catch my farts in a glass under water.

And I guess you called it Fiji water.

 

[Highland]

funny thread...lol