No more Fiji Water

[Just_A_Guy]

Uh . . . yeah . . . that kind.

[blusun7]

If you have Netflix then you have to watch the documentary TAPPED. It is about bottle water companies and how they are very powerful but there are no taxes that really apply to them. Municipal water is free so just cause they clean it doesnt mean it should also be free to them which 40 percent of companies that use municipal. So i assume that the goverment of fiji is saying hey you have to pay taxes like any other company does with that products even though it is from a spring. Similiar story below.

Poland Springs water company(owned by Nestle) is getting spring water for free in maine. Literally hook and go. There are old old laws state they can do this and they are not giving back to the city in anyway and the county is trying to get a tax on that water to nestle so they can get something in return but Nestle is too powerful. I bet this is happening to Fiji Water.

Did you know that Toronto banned bottle water products and are investing in the municipal system!! The citizens did this and their goverment listened. I wish we had uncorrupted goverment. If you watch the documentary youll see why. We need to do the same.

When you buy bottle water you are paying 1900 times more the cost. Then when you give back that bottle in a recycling center you feel you have done your part for mother nature but you saved them money. Repeat process for a long time and you have not only made them billions of dollars but you also help privatize it. Sure the Water is PURE but you can do that at home with a filter.

I ll try to reduce water bottle buying.

Watch Tapped and gain your own conclusion.

| Tapped the Movie - official site |

[Dravin]

Municipal water is free so just cause they clean it doesnt mean it should also be free to them which 40 percent of companies that use municipal.

Plenty of municipalities charge for utility use. As a blanket statement the above quote is false.

Poland Springs water company(owned by Nestle) is getting spring water for free in maine. Literally hook and go. There are old old laws state they can do this and they are not giving back to the city in anyway and the county is trying to get a tax on that water to nestle so they can get something in return but Nestle is too powerful. I bet this is happening to Fiji Water.

I'm reading this to say that the company can, using it's own equipment, tap into the spring and make use of it without paying the municipality it is located in? Is that correct? If indeed the municipality is allowing others to hook into their system without charge that does seem weird unless the cost is being compensated by things such as property taxes or other perceived benefits (e.g. employment at the bottling plant may be seen as worth not charging for the water).

Did you know that Toronto banned bottle water products and are investing in the municipal system!! The citizens did this and their goverment listened. I wish we had uncorrupted goverment. If you watch the documentary youll see why. We need to do the same.

I assume this is talking about making the water more palatable and not necessarily safer? Maybe a Canadian can chime in but I have a hard time seeing Toronto as having suffered from unsafe (beyond the hiccups systems get) municipal water supplies in the recent past.

Edited January 4, 2011 by Dravin