It’s Confirmed:
FIJI to NY = VERY Far!
Seems a shame to drive a bottle of water halfway around the globe, what with the climate and oil situations being what they are. The message is catching on! There’s a great piece in Salon, follow the link, drink in the facts.
LINK: WHATCANONEPERSONDO.com
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I’m trying to think… would I drive that far for a drink? No. My water probably should be ask to go that far either.
Cool website. It’s making me thirsty. For what? I still haven’t decided. Maybe a Coke.
Distance is bad. Plastic is bad. I’m sure their politics aren’t right. I can think of 30 reasons not to drink Fiji water. The fastest way to put them out of biz would be putting a free tap in every bodega, but somehow now that there’s money to be made off water, no one with a register watns to lend a cup.
I’d never had a problem with tap water until someone told me to. I hate to admit it, but I’m ashamed of the number of bottles I probably guy per year.
Have you seen this:
http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/water/pubs/reports/take-back-the-tap
It looks right up your alley.
PS: Keep up the good work.
I’ve been to Fiji. It’s a nice place.
Oh my god, I’ve been telling people this for YEARS. Really and truly. Watching someone buy Fiji is like watching them cut down an old growth forest, only less useful.
I don’t think Nicola read the fine print. Is that number right? I tried to calculate with google maps, it wouldn’t say.
As a New Yorker living in Fiji for the past six years, my mouth is watering (no pun intended) after coming across your site today.
I love and miss my NY water.
I’m not complaining having Fiji water around me but for the ultimate irony, could you send a case to me here?
Fiji actually does a lot for the environment. They are the only bottled water company with a negative carbon footprint, so there goes the argument of them traveling to far. Also for every tree they cut down they plant two, so there goes the rain forest argument.
John, I ALMOST agree with you… but if you fix a problem you’re also actively causing, have you really helped anything? Really, think about it. I know this is extreme but what if I were spreading a disease, but for every person I get it to I educated 4 about how to prevent it. Wouldn’t we all be better off if I just stopped steading it? That’s kind of how I see global warming. It’s a disease. And say, planting 100 trees for every plastic bag you throw in the ocean, doesn’t really help anything. The smarter more is to not cause the problem in the first place.
Hey. I totally agree, and I want a bottle of NYC water. Shipped to me, 1074 miles away, because I want in on the hype!!!!
Yay! I have been reading for YEARS about the aqueducts and the quality of the water. Now I want in. I want some shipped to me!
Nice that you are using local water BUT putting it in plastic bottles that will hang around in dumps and landfills for eons? Bad news.
By all means, Gilda, please DRINK TAP when it’s available. It’s the best option hands down.
interesting that you promote drinking local tap water, but will ship cases of NYC’s finest to any state in the us as opposed to trying to institute the same infrastructure in other cities. seems more like a business gimmick, well done.
Bravo! Its great that you are exploiting available resources rather than adding to escalating global problems with bottled water. As a brit, I fill up my water from the tap, and it honestly tastes better than the environmentally unfriendly bottled rubbish from Evian, Volvic and other irresponsible suppliers. Kudos to you sirs.