My problems with Fiji Water began before I ever had any to drink. About a year ago, in my frequent travels on business to Chicago, I started noticing bottles of Fiji Water waiting for me in my hotel rooms, available to drink for an extra charge of between four and six dollars. It bothered me that I would pay a great deal for a good hotel room in a major American city, and then have it suggested to me that, if I wanted water worth drinking, I should pay an extra fee per 500 mililiter bottle.
Then, this week, I had a bottle, and well, I still don’t get it. It tasted like, you know, water. I was at a work session to revamp a major brand of fabric softener, and I had to make a presentation, so I wanted to have something to drink on hand, to prevent me from getting a sore throat. All that was available were bottles of Fiji Water. No pitchers of ice water. Nothing on tap. Just a big case of Fiji Water.
Fiji Water is everywhere these days – which makes me wonder just what the people on Fiji are doing for water these days. Are they chugging on great big bottles of Oklahoma Water?
I read the back of a bottle of Fiji Water during that meeting, during a boring speech from the client’s head of marketing, in which he told people that they shouldn’t expect to learn anything during the meeting. Rather, he said, the purpose of the meeting was to learn how to learn. That means, I suppose, that the purpose of his little speech was to help people learn how to learn how to learn. You can see why I was reading that label so intently.
Anyway, the point is that Fiji Water actually comes from Fiji. Yes, Fiji, that location in the remote South Pacific. The Fiji Water company actually collects water in Fiji to put in bottles and ship to the United States for bored businesspeople to drink during meetings about learning to learn. Now that’s a business model I’d like to see examined during an MBA seminar.
Why Fiji? Why Fiji Water? Well, the Fiji Water bottle said that the water in Fiji is artesian, and is some of the most pure water on Earth. Pure? Oh, that’s good. I like pure. Pure is, good for us because it’s, you know pure. Well, then I took a look at the web site for Fiji Water, and I found out that that pure water of Fiji actually has some kind of “balanced” “mineral content” and “high level of silica”. All that’s supposed to be good for me, the Fiji Water web site tells me. But is it pure?
You want pure water? Go and get a gallon of distilled water for 99 cents at the grocery store. You won’t get anything more pure than distilled water. The process of distilling water, you see, turns it into steam, leaving practically all impurities behind, to be recondensed elsewhere as steam. You’ll remember from high school that chemists use distilled water for experiments because it’s pure enough that chemical reactions won’t get screwed up by all that “mineral content” that is found in the kind of water you might find just sitting around – like water from Fiji.
If I’m stuck in a place where Fiji Water is all there is to drink, then I guess I’ll drink it, but it really bothers me to drink water that has been shipped halfway across the surface of this planet, using fossil fuel guzzling boats, airplanes and trucks, just in order for me to feel pure and healthy. I’ve still got the quaint old idea that all human beings deserve to have the water where they live be drinkable.
It just feels decadent for me to drink Fiji Water. Decadence, the professional sermonizers tell us, is what brings great civilizations to the point of collapse. So, it’s also got me angry that the best kind of civilization-ending decadence that America can come up with is Fiji Water. The Romans had fun sorts of decadence, like gigantic sexual orgies. Can we have such affairs as the ship goes down? No, even in our decadence, we have to be pure. Sigh.
One final note about Fiji Water. I see, as I browse the Fiji Water web site, that the Fiji Water brand line is expanding. One can now purchase more than just Fiji Water itself. One can now also purchase “accessories” for Fiji Water. Accessories?!? Since when do we need accessories for water? What could these Fiji Water accessories possibly be? Fiji Water drinking glasses, specially shaped to enhance the pure watery flavor of Fiji Water? Straws?
So far, I cannot find any information about just what these Fiji Water accessories are. If anyone knows what they are, please drop me a line. I would just feel dreadful if I was caught sipping water unfashionably while out in public.
Wow, I happened to run across this website! It’s crazy to read these ignorant comments from people all over our country. Honestly, bottled or not bottled is all a matter of personal preference. I myself have a brita filter at home and also buy all different kinds of bottled water to hand out to clients at my business. I do not buy fiji only because of costs but I have tried it. My friend buys it bulk at BJs. I personally enjoyed it and did feel that it tasted smoother. I guess my point is let people be. Why call people snots for enjoying Fiji water? It’s simply a prefence that they have. They do have a good looking bottle but you can say the same thing about alot of things marketed in the USA. People should mind their own business and drink whatever water they prefer whether it’s tap or the most expensive water on the market without placing judgements. Its really sad to read some of the above comments.
I agree with you. Don’t be mad because the price of the water is to steep for you. Its just like Jordan’s. A lot of people don’t like them not because there ugly but mainly because they cant afford them. Fiji is great water and i feel like you pay for what you get.
Decadent pigs!
What’s sad, Cathy, is that we all have to breathe the smog that’s made by processing and shipping this so-called “clean” water.
I’ve tried Fiji water and I really liked it…it tastes about the same as Evian. It is priced too high though…and as for chemicals from the plastic bottles, who cares…we’re all dying anyways.
Its no marketing scam you idiots. Water is NOT just water. Your water supply is being POISONED right from your trusted government. Flouride!
Flouride is a toxic poison and destroy your teeth, bones, and your brain. Yep thats right. “Oh but bottled water is better right?” WRONG. Your average bottled water is WAY worst then tap water! And yes distilled water is the BEST.
I know this is an old post but I believe the word you were looking for, Tesla, is worse, not “way worst”. And I bet English is the only language you speak too…..
Really a spelling correction? How pitifully infinitesimal is your mind? You silly monkey on a rock, you’re correcting what just came to be recently(proper language). People like you lack imagination and anything anyone could call orignality. You don’t even know what you are, or you wouldnt waste a second of you miniscule life on such things. BTW I drink only Fuji, and have for 3 years, our tap water is horrid. If you’re a sensitive person like me you can immediately after drinking the tap feel the grit in your teeth, the aftertaste, the difference in which it enter the bloodstream and brain. People that realise you are what you eat try to make themselves of polycarbonate(durable, strong), not straw. Flouride in the tap water is put there with the intent of making people more docile and subservient. As I prefer to be able to reason properly and without feeling listless I consumer what I do. If you attempt to reply in any form, know you’re dealing with a far more evolved being then yourself and it would be fruitless.
And he has a ray gun.
Not right now, but if I put my mind to it, I could. The military aleardy has them and has paired them with eestor battery packs. The reason its unheard of is because if we start to use them there would be copycats world wide, which would be a nightmare..
Funny, you don’t sound very sensitive at all…………
yeah flourides a poison, but it doesn’t destroy your teeth in fact the reason flouride is in the water is to strengthen your teeth. If you want proof then go look on your tube of toothpaste. just about every tube has flouride in it
Mitch, flouride is a poison, and it is not put in the water to help your teeth, you’ve taken the stance of the gullable. Also, if you ingest a tube of toothpaste it would kill you, thats how bad it is to consume. Too much flouride kills just about any lifeform, counting the enamel on the teeth which protects them..
Most water sources already contain 1.0ppm and cities with fluoridation pump it up to 1.2ppm. Not much, and it helps poor people have better teeth.
It does accumulate in the part of the brain affecting will power though, but negatively or positively have yet to be determined.
I am glad to hear someone really knows what’s going on..
uh didn’t fiji used to be undergoing repairs to their pipe? why fiji
FIJI Water would like to let you send a message back to Fiji.
There’s no question about it: Fiji is far away. The distance is part of what makes us so much more pure and so much healthier than other bottled waters. Now you have an opportunity to send a message back to Fiji in the same bottles. We’re building a fully functional 1/16 replica of one of our tankers out of recycled FIJI Water bottles and we want to get you involved. At FIJI Water, we know we send our water across great distances to get the purest and healthiest water to you. Everyday we ship hundreds of bottles on ocean freighters to make sure that you get the freshest water that Fiji has to offer, often at great expense. We are building a prototype of one of our ocean freighters to commemorate your bottle’s journey, from recycled FIJI bottles.
The messages will be placed inside the vessel’s bottles using a completely sealed delivery system, (untouched by man).
The FIJI bottle freighter will then sail back to Fiji under its own propulsion to deliver your messages. To ensure that your message is actually received, we will electronically deliver your message as well.
*Most of the plastic that is released into the ocean concentrates itself somewhere between California and Hawaii. Fiji Water does not condone the releasing of plastic into the ocean.
Is this Fiji, or are you a mental shut-in in a trailer somwhere? What are you trying to say??
LOL
I’m sorry, but is this a joke? Distance makes the water pure and healthy? You sending a freighter full of promotional gimmicks is supposed to make me feel better about the environmental status of Fiji Water?
I’ll buy that when you buy my special promotional bottles of bottled air.
Distance is not the reason Fiji water is more pure than other bottled water. Fiji water is one of the few types of bottled water which is not spring water, but rather artesian water. If you don’t know what that is, go wikipedia it, as I don’t feel like giving you a geology lesson. You’re comparing the purchase of Fiji water to the idea of purchasing bottled air. Incorrect analogy. Fiji water isn’t really analogous to bottled air. But rather, cheap-o bottled water is analogous to regular city/suburban air we breathe, while Fiji water is analogous to air you’d find on the rocky mountains. It’s not necessarily 100% pure and perfect, but it’s definitely better for you than the cheap alternative.
Brian, that’s silly. Distilled water is going to be a lot, lot, lot, lot, lot more pure than artesian water. Distilled water sells for about one dollar per gallon, and is bottled close to where it’s sold.
As you say, Brian, look it up. You also might want to look at how shipping water halfway around the world makes the air we breathe, in city/suburban areas as well as in Fiji, filled with pollutants.
Distilled water is actually not pure at all, distilled water still caries impurities such as drugs from prescription pills, hormones, and birth controls. Along with that distilled water has no minerals in it, and has a low Ph (Acidic).
Fiji water had a high ph level which means it is more alkaline than both tap, distilled or other bottled waters. I suffer from severe acid reflux and drink fiji water as well as eat a very alkaline diet and have found it does wonders for me. I don’t like that it environmentally unfriendly and I wish there was a source closer to home but there is not. It is either this or nexium everyday until I am 90 and that just wasn’t an option for me.
I’m pretty sure someone was spamming you mate and it wasn’t the company
There’s no question about it: Kalashnikov assault rifles kill a hell of a lot of people. Killing people is what makes us so much safer and healthier than other assault rifles. Now you have an opportunity to send a message back to Fiji in the same bottles. We’re building a fully functional 1/16 replica of one of our tankers out of spent Kalashnikov shells and we want to get you involved. At Kalashnikov, we know we send our assault rifles across great distances to get the purest and healthiest antipersonnel equipment to you. Everyday we ship hundreds of assault rifles on ocean freighters to make sure that you get the freshest killing machines that Kalashnikov has to offer, often at great expense. We are building a prototype of one of our ocean freighters to commemorate your bottle’s journey, from spent Kalashnikov cartriges.
*Most of the lead that is released into human bodies concentrates itself somewhere between the clivicle and the pelvis. Kalashnikov, Inc. does not condone the releasing of lead into human bodies.
haha im drinking fiji water right now yummmmmmmmmmy yum yum =] taste kinda lke pussy yummy me love pussy (clit mucho)
@ #27, ann m.
#5 so far is the most stable plastic. so if you choose a nalgene/nalgene-esque plastic bottle, go with #5 polypropylene.
plastics are so environmentally detrimental from production (to industrial waste, by-products, wasted resources) to the leaching and fume release from them, to their photodegredation (not biodegradable) that leaves polymers to enter our food chain, mix in with ground soil, exist in water and in the air.
i personally do not know the worst evil — drinking and eating fluoride, involuntarily, as an american, knowing i do not want to, but not having any clear choice in the matter – distilled water is very aggressive and bonds to carbon dioxide making it acidic. a bodily pH that is acidic can cause calcium to be leached out of bones to try to neutralize, also acidic environments promote bacteria and illness. also distilling may not really provide any relief against fluoride, same goes for reverse osmosis, since fluoride molecules are smaller than h2o.
i want to move to an english speaking, non-US place, where they do not fluoridate and grow local, organic crops – therefore – i would not have to consume processed foods or bottled beverages.. or shower in fluoridated water.. (many of you would be well to know that soymilk has a higher concentration of fluoride than milk, soy is also full of neurotoxins, and should not be consumed.)
chlorine is another issue, and their TCM byproducts. though, this can apparently be remedied by placing tap water, uncovered in the fridge for 24 hrs, which evaporates both chlorine and TCMs.
the problem with brita is the plastic jug and the waste that comes from all those replacement filters. and possible re-contamination of filtered water due to improper usage.
i also have 2 kleen kanteens, i like the idea, however water tastes slightly metallic, does anyone else have this problem. and we wash them with vinegar..
do not forget that you live in a government deregulated capitalist country where we are poisoned by convenience and oppressed by greed and the powers that be. remember that we proletariat are solely fodder for the money maker. do not think that just because it’s sold at walmart or the FDA says it’s okay that you should embrace it with open arms. everyone’s a sell out if the price is right. and think, if the government wasn’t allowing us to be slowly killed off, there would be less need for the multi-billion, possibly trillion dollar medical, pharmaceutical, insurance and advertising industries…
Me and you would get along very well, I have the same exact issues on my mind. I’m also allergic to MSG, which is an unregulated allergin in food that gives you an immense headaches and poor circulation, my body fights it like a toxin. I hate having to find out an hour after eating that I’m gonna have a headache for 24 hours… If you’d like to contact me I’m looking into being a Geonaut(term I’ve made) and building a sustainable indestructable structure to live in. With its own pure everything and wind power, its my life mission and you’d be welcome, unless you’re obese or over 60, as and I dont need to take care of the elderly and obesity slightly disgust me.. ha
Bula!
Having visited Fiji In November, I can attest to the deliciousness of the water. That is, the tap water. The bottled stuff is making big bucks for the Fiji Water guy and tastes like “bottled water”. I had the un-pleasure of seeing lots of Fiji Water bottles washed up in the beaches of very remote parts of Fiji. Like homing pigeons? I do like the graphics on the bottles, but better to have Guaghin-style ladies and make them collectibles. At least then they wouldn’t end up in our landfills.
Most of you are uninformed.
There is a great difference between Fiji water and “other bottled waters”. They aren’t all the same. Most bottled water is spring water (which usually comes from 3-4 different underground spring sources.) Fiji water is ARTESIAN water, which is NOT the same as spring water. Artesian water is more pure than spring water. Why does it cost more than Poland Springs and Ice Mountain? For one, it’s imported. Secondly, as I said already, it’s more pure. The better the water, the more it costs. If you’re someone who doesn’t care how pure the water you’re drinking is, then go for the 20-pack of Wal-Mart Water. If you’re someone who wants high quality water, spring the extra couple bucks that you would normally spend on Doritos and Ice Cream on Fiji water (it’s pretty much the best water you can buy)
MORE pure? Come on and be honest, Brian.
Half-treated sewage is more pure than raw sewage. Are you going to drink it?
More pure is not the measure, Brian.
Distilled water is much more pure than Fiji Water, which is practically unregulated here in the United States.
If pure is your measure, Fiji Water just can’t compete with distilled water…
… and all the way across the ocean, and then on a truck, and then on the shelf in the store, it’s sitting in plastic bottles. Do you know whether that plastic is one of the sorts to leach chemicals with hormonal properties?
Hey, guys. Purity is NOT the ultimate goal here. Fiji water and other natural mineral waters are ideal BECAUSE of the mineral content. Our bodies need a constant replenishment of trace minerals and electrolytes. Ancient man got this through the wild, organic food supply AND by drinking water from uncontaminated, pristine rivers, streams, and springs that contain a full spectrum of these essential minerals. When we refer to water “purity” we are obviously concerned with actual contaminants NOT the natural, healthy residues that belong there. When is “Logic” going to return as a subject in our schools again?
jonkeo, pay attention to the fact that it’s Fiji Water that makes “purity” the standard – they claim it’s some of the most pure water on Earth. Does Fiji Water make any particular claims about the water containing needed minerals? Not that I can see. There’s no nutritional mineral claim on the bottle, that’s for sure. Elsewhere, where they’re not as legally liable for the statement, they claim that the mineral content is “balanced”. What does that mean? Whatever they want it to mean. It’s a throw-away word.
Before people go around claiming that Fiji Water is healthy because of superior mineral content, they had better go and prove it, rather than make groundless assertions.
Have you seen a bottle of Fiji water “green man”?
The mineral content is ON the bottle.
The back of the bottle talks about how the water has minerals and is protected from external elements. And I quote:
“In Fiji, rainfall filters through vocanic rock over hundreds of years, adding vital minerals that give FIJI water its unique and refreshing taste. The water collects in an ancient artesian aquifer deep within the earth where it is protected from external elements. It’s the way nature intended water to be. Untouched.”
By pure they mean it has some PURE, essential minerals from Earth and is protected by outside sources, so in fact, it IS pure, untouched water.
Also, there is no evidence that the plastic bottles are harmful to people/animals. The bottles can be recycled and can be used to make different materials.
Conduct a study, green man, and publish your results.
What kind of water do you drink green man? Do you recycle?
Also, Fiji has cut down emissions and they are using renewable energy to provide an overall better product.
You said yourself that you read the back of the bottle,when it spoke of the minerals,but now your claiming it doesn’t.Sounds to me like your picking sides.
Oh…and, by the way, as a health counselor I have consulted with people who were diagnosed with mineral deficiency AS A RESULT OF DRINKING DISTILLED WATER. It creates mineral dilution in the metabolism.
heh heh.. instead of free municiple water fountains we get to pay by the bottle when we are walking around town. walk into a deli and ask for a drink of water and you are shown a refrig with bottles in it for $2-$5.
even in the desert visitors were given a drink of water.
I live in NYC and we have the best water from the Catskills…I have a nice old glass bottle that I fill up and put in the fridge.
at work we have filtered chilled water and our our water carafes…
I would like to point something out to some of you that don’t get why Fiji water is considered “pure.” If you live in a large metropolitan city, you are drinking your own waste water. That’s right. The “sewage treatment plant” filters out all of the fecal matter, and urine and runs the water back through a bunch of filters and then pushes the water back through the pipes that it came to you the first time. Yes, you are drinking waste water if you live in a large city. There is not enough “drinkable” water on this planet to be able to “throw it away” and get more.
Even in rural areas this process happens with somewhat less of a mechanized process. A lagoon for example. A country boy flushes his toilet. All of that waste matter gets pushed in to a lagoon, which is a big pond of waste water. There are certain bacteria in this water that actually break down the fecal matter, however…Not all of this dirty water is broken down by bacteria, much of it is soaked in to the soil, which then filters through the earth in to nearby rivers, streams, creeks, etc, which is then evaporated in to the air and then falls back to the ground as rain. If there wasn’t so many people that produce so much waste, it wouldn’t be a problem, but 7 billion people on this earth make it very difficult for the bacteria and the filtering process to keep up. This is where filters and ionization come in to play. This is not a natural way to produce good water. Water is supposed to have certain minerals in it because of the “natural” filtration process.
Now, on to Fiji water. Rainwater filters down through tons of volcanic rock, and in to the soil. It then gets trapped in what is called aquifers. These aquifers are underground pockets that are not subject to outside elements, which means the water in those aquifers is preserved. Along with a natural form of mineralized water, you get a water that isn’t subject to the poison and other substances which are found in land saturated by wasteful humans. This is why this water is pure and tastes so good. The bottlers do not add to or take anything away from the water that they bottle.
Now of course there will be some discourse as to how it arrives in “America,” but ultimately that bottle of water is better for you than anything else you can buy on the shelf, or get out of a tap. I would much rather get a natural version of minerals in my water than I would a version that has synthetic minerals inserted in to it. Such as Fluoride. Fluoride is added to many water supplies because it is good for child development and is supposed to be in water. Granted, too much isn’t good for you, but natural water does have Fluoride in it.
Before you go knocking a product, perhaps you should do some research and discover for yourself the difference between good water and bad water.
The reason everyone does not get is that Europe years ago knew fluoride was a poison and in this country as good as we are , have fallen victims to the chemical companies and the dentist Orgs.
How do they actually bottle the water?? I mean getting it out if the aquifer and into a bottle?
Good question. Then there’s the question about how water that’s been sitting around in a plastic bottle for a long time while being shipped in a cargo vessel across an ocean, can be regarded as pure. As I understand it, chemicals leach out of plastic into the water it holds. Does the Fiji Water company test the water for purity AFTER it’s been sitting on the shelves for months?
All interesting comments, although everything in society processed foods, can foods (bpa), toothpaste, shampoo etc… its all poisonous for us. I can attest that fiji water is in fact the purest. I recently made the switch from poland springs to fiji simply by doing some research and personally testing it out myself. Go to youtube and search water testing for different water brands you will be amazed. Aquafina is actually the worst in terms of PH definitely get away from that. Fiji is the closest to being perfect and unlike other water bottles it actually state its PH as well as mineral content on the back label. Folks buy WATER TESTING STRIPS test tap water, fiji water and others so you can see the actual difference and then comment.
“I can attest that fiji water is in fact the purest.” Really, Grey? It’s more pure than distilled water, which you can buy for 99 cents per gallon? Can you show me the data for that?
You keep going on about distilled water as your only defense against Fiji. But can you tell me about NO MINERALS being in distilled water? I DONT WANT THTA,. I want the purest water with the best mineral content. You going on about this distilled water is pointless cause its just as unhealthy due to lack of minerals etc. Distilled water, over time, is worse for you than bottled. Get a clue green man.
I love figi water. I’m not sure if it actually taste better or if its just in my head i’ll admit that. I’m a person who prefers juice and soda over water but I’ll drink figi water anyday. I don’t know it makes me feel like I have more class and the bottle is pretty. Actually I want some now <@:)
Dude green man i agree with you all people flameing you are problaey fiji attack dogs ( u know all major companys have these) they are used to “disclaim” anything to do with their product is bad ~ I use my own water filter most of time cya NinthLite
if you really want to screw up your body, drink distilled water. you will actually be leaching out much of your bodies minerals. you will also be screwing up your ph levels with your stomach and various other problems. very, very bad idea.
“Ninth” Not All People Are Companies Attack dogs..(Not Saying You Mean That) They have their own oppinion or knowledge.. there are also attack dogs that you speak of putting down brand for products, “GreenMan&AnyotherFlamingFiji” the fact is the Purest Water Is Not Neccessarily Water With Everything Taken Out Of The Water.. But the one with not much or little contaminates but mineral and all the goodness inside the water. I Won’t Say Fiji Is the best in existance on earth but if the facts are true its probably the best water publicly known when it comes to bottled water and better than tap water. Water Nature Intended From A Clean Environment with less contaminates than a place like cities and places full of human activity. If you want to find out I think you should actually do reseach correctly and follow what “Grey-ny” said instead of just arguing mindless comments with out doing anything to learn whether or not it’s true. Things are Not as they always appear, an examples is if you put someone in a high position and there were actually greedy people at different points you may assume their the same.. or that he is a certin way but until you meet the person and know he well enough without being bias you won’t know if you were wrong on you assumtion of what he/she’s like or the persona. Another of the many examples is natural healing which I really won’t go into on a site prasin or dissing water. But the overal fact is unlike fiji which can be tested natural healing in chi gong can’t really be tested as much but its a known fact that it heals even though it took people on the western side of the world and some other lot a very long time to finnally execpt its benifits with still critics. Remember this not all things can be solved with modern science some thing exist which our mind do not comprehend but are actually working regardless of how hard it is to believe..
(As I Stated Above) From My Examples at the ending of what I wrote I was simply writing while water is more simplistic to test or whatever there are thing even more unbelievable or not known my many that are actually true so just check thing out. I don’t know what any of you people are like personally but be more open to believe things(don’t believe everything but don’t be a person who is not open to the infinite possibilites of life) and to learn on the way. Were all entities of the little blue planet we call earth in this unknown universe.
I finally took the leap and bought a 6-pack of 1 liter FiJi water. It cost just around $9 at Wal-mart with tax. I was expecting some sort of zen-like experience upon first sip. $9 is more than I pay for a 6-pack of really decent Sam Adams Summer Blend. And about $6 more than I pay for a case (24 12-oz bottles) of Nestles water. So I, like most gullible consumers, assumed the price and pretty bottle would make this sampling a memorable and unique experience. uh-uh. I grabbed a bottle of the Nestles I had tucked away in my fridge and tasted it. No difference. I did then a quick blind taste-test in my office. Of the 5 ppl I tested not one really had a preference.
I have to concur with what GreenMan keeps stressing….you can’t get any more pure than distilled water!. So, the pureness factor, imo is nothing but hype. The taste doesn’t exactly light me up. So my verdict. The ppl that habitutually buy Fiji, do so because they either have the money to throw away and probably feel like walking around in public with a bottle of Fiji makes them a bit more elite, or they don’t have the money but still feel the need to project an air of prominence and sophistication. just my opinion. I do know the stuff tastes like water.
and like so many people are telling you, distilled water will screw up your body, and that water needs the minerals that distilled is stripped of so yeah fiji might be expensive but there’s no way in hell your getting me to drink distilled
Drinking one type of water verses another because of the supposed health benefits of the trace mineral content (or lack there of) is absurd. Except in extreme cases where the water is contaminated by pollutants or biological agents, it really doesn’t matter whether you’re drinking tap water, distilled water, or commercial bottled water. The mineral content of the water is so low that you’re not getting a significant portion of you daily mineral diet from the water, even if you’re drinking extremely hard, calcium loaded well water.
Physiologically, you body can’t tell the difference between distilled water and bottled water: the ion content of both is so much lower than your blood that your body reacts to both in the same way. It’s a myth that distilled water leaches minerals from your system. If that were true then bottled water would do the same. The small content of minerals in bottled water (or tap water) would not prevent this from happening. A simple experiment shows that this is true. When blood is put in a dialysis tube and the tube is placed in fresh water, the water diffuses into the tube and causes the blood cells to burst. This happens no matter what type of water you use (unless it’s a saline solution). This doesn’t happen in your body because your body absorbs the water and adds the proper mix of ions to it as it enters the blood stream. The only way to really cause an ion imbalance would be to drink huge quantities of water (gallons) or to inject the water directly into your blood stream.
The content of municipal tap water in the United States is very strictly monitored and controlled. Indeed, it’s controlled much more so than bottled water is. The addition of trace amounts of fluoride and chlorine to the water does not affect the health of the water. Ingesting these low levels will not harm your health. Indeed, low levels of fluoride help prevent tooth decay. Chlorine is necessary to kill bacteria and won’t harm you. Do you ever swim in a pool or enter a hot tub? Those chlorine levels are far higher, but still not harmful to you even if you ingest a little.
Mitch, all of the people who are telling you that distilled water will screw up your body are really just spreading unsubstantiated rumors. There is no scientific evidence that it is true. Just because a lot of people say it doesn’t make it so. I would wager that the ultimate source of this misinformation is the bottled water companies themselves.
The only valid reason for drinking one type of water over another is taste. Bottled water definitely tastes better. Many people can’t stand the taste of tap water and distilled water has no taste at all. Personally, I drink tap water: it tastes fine to me. Buying bottled water is such a waste of money and resources that I do so only occasionally.
Mark, everything in your post was absolutely correct. (And with correct spelling and punctuation!). My biggest problem with using water from aquifers is the small issue of land subsidence. In central Texas a lot of cities pull water out of the Edwards aquifer. Because we are taking water out at a faster rate than natural processes refill it, the land is sinking. So basically, it’s not a sustainable resource. Drink tap water!
I personally like Fiji water. Water being mainly what I drink, aside from the occasional St.Pauli Girl brew or smoothies(pre-run,post-runs)I have a real problem with my county adding things to my tap supply. What the fuck is wrong with this country?! They care so much about your health that they add flouride. (rolls eyes)laughable. I’d like to see what water politicans drink. I’d like to have Obama drink a gallon of my tap water see if he does it. I don’t go near toxic toothpaste. Strawberries to brush my teeth and mouth wash
I love how far the fluoride conspiracy theory has come — now politicians have their own secret water supplies. Are you sure Obama even drinks water? Have you ever seen him (or any other commie) drink a glass of water? I heard they only drink pure grain alcohol as they were trained in Russia.
That’s what the Illuminati want you to think, Hendrix.
Am I to believe They don’t want me to know the secret of using strawberries to brush my mouth wash as well? Laughable indeed.
I personally like Fiji water. Water being mainly what I drink, aside from the occasional St.Pauli Girl brew or smoothies(pre-run,post-runs)I have a real problem with my county adding things to my tap supply. What the fuck is wrong with this country?! They care so much about your health that they add flouride. (rolls eyes)laughable. I’d like to see what water politicans drink. I’d like to have Obama drink a gallon of my tap water see if he does it. I don’t go near toxic toothpaste. Strawberries to brush my teeth and mouth wash
I’m pretty sure that Fiji water is the best bottled water around.
DIG IT. FIJI WATER. NOW HOLD YOUR HAT. TASTES BETTER THAN BEER.
I TOLD MY WATERING HOLE TO STOCK IT OR I WOULD NOT PULL UP A STOOL AND HANG OUT.
DONE. YOU KNOW WHAT THE WATERING HOLE CAN NOT GET ENOUGH OF THE STUFF. I RECOMMEND FIJI WATER TO ALL OF MY ASSOCIATES WHO WISH TO EXTEND THEIR LIFE WHILE SOCIALIZING.
ANY RESTAURANT OR BAR THAT DOES NOT SELL IT SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED TO DO SO.
THE TASTE OF FIJI WATER IS SURREAL.
JOHN W. BUGLER
BUGLER.ORG
WOW!!!
Either you don’t have enough to do at work or your perspectives are as short-sided as your opinions. First of all there are clear differences in types of water(from tap to bottled). Do a little research, the internet is a wonderful thing. If you feel that tap water is ok have a sample sent to determine just what is present in the water. Some bottled water are not too good either. There should be a certain mineral content in h2o. Yes, I do like Fiji, it is considered one if not the best bottled water you can purchase.
Also to the reader(aware of the gov) who commented on Obama, what the hell does he have to do with your tap water? I guess you want to blame him for the tap water conditions, something that has existed for years. Why not take a moment and look inside YOU and see what needs to be changed or healed then maybe just maybe it won’t be the goverments fault for what we have collectively done to our precious earth.
Millions of businesses rely on shipping to transport their goods.To bad mouth one company is ludicrous.
Following your logic: Millions of Germans acquiesced to Nazi Rule. To bad mouth any one German at the time would have been ludicrous.
It is not at all ludicrous, Dennis, to point out the absurdity of shipping water halfway around the world when equally good, equally clean water is already available out of the tap in United States.
Green man, your super logicly unsound, nearing insanity. Your on a computer typing this stuff to people, nothings less green then using some 120-300 watt computer to promote greeness, you better quit reading this and shut off quit… The power oh the power! Shut off fast! Anyways just letting you just your a hippie idiot, go stroll the roads for chucked bottles and recycle them dueche. This world is already on course to the boiling point. You’ll die with the rest that weren’t bright enough to predict the natural disasters coming. While you choke to death on the smell of rotten eggs before you die, know someone much greener and intelligent told you that.
Well as soon as you put the ‘pure’ water in a plastic bottle it’s ruined. All plastics leach contaminants in differing levels depending on the type of plastic, because 99% of plastics are derived from mineral oil which is highly toxic, even the ‘most refined’ forms of plastic still contain contaminants that leach from them over time, not to mention your gonna huff in car fumes when you breath (mineral oil derived) and dump detergent (more oil) waste in the sea (mineral oil polluted) weapons yep oil, paint oil, pharmaceuticals oil, food oil, clothing oil, oil oil oil oil, wana fight a war guess what your gona need? Even the flag is printed or dyed with.. you guessed it… Basically sucking the planets dark blood (mineral oil) is kinda vampierificle and yes it may as well be blood since our planet is of course alive! (and I don’t mean in some kind of ‘newage’ ‘hippie’ ‘greenest’ ‘enviro-MENTAList’ type way!) Anyone in any doubt that our planet is alive needs to go and try to live on some other planet NOT teaming with life, I will make it ‘easy’ for you.. You can choose any planet you can get to and live on without coming back to this one! Or should I say any other planet your mother can give birth to you on! So just assume it’s not ‘pure’ if it’s contacted plastic or anything derived of mineral oil, say for instance your composite dental fillings (mineral oil derivatives), or you can choose mercury amalgam, whats your poison?). One day people will look back on the ‘plastic age’ and be amused and surprised comparing it’s inhabitants to the Romans use of lead for cooking utensils. *sigh* i know earth has a growing population but really hidden poisoning in plain sight is NOT the way to deal with it!
And yes people are getting ill (diabetes and obesity) and dropping dead from it (cancers and complications and the rest and NO plastics are NOT even the soul cause of these issues).
So yeh it’s just bottled water that was a bit cleaner before it got bottled!
: ) have a nice day!
Is it cheaper to buy fiji from the fiji website or at say bj’s?
Kids, don’t drink distilled water. Your cells will lose its electric sodium/potassium balance and can literally BLOW UP. Green Man, you’re full of it and giving bad, dangerous advice
Hey everyone. Just chill. Talk to Pablo on treehuggers.com. he know’s what up.
I love Fiji Water – It is all my family drink. If we run low or out, I am miserable and drink apple juice till we get some. I am lactose and milk allergic so as much as I love it, I can’t have it. As long as I can afford it, I am FIJI all the way.
LOL,MY GRANDMOTHER HAS 103 YEARS OLD,SHE NEVER DRINK FIJI WATER OR ANOTHER WATER BOTTLES,SHE DRINKS REGULAR WATER WITHOUT FILTRACION,AND SHE STILL ALIVE!!!LOL
I love how this is just a one sided rant on Fiji. Yeah it says its pure and it probably is pure water. So is every other type of water. If your gonna start a rant on this type of water make sure to include the other brands that are processed the same way and shipped across miles and miles burning tons of fuel. It may not be across the ocean but it’s still just as bad. Fiji is good water. You think anyone cares how much fuel it takes for them to get their Fiji water? I guarantee it doesn’t even cross their mind. Along with every other type. In the end this stuff is no worse than any other brand. And the water isn’t pure because it’s been enriched with minerals? God forbid anyone give us those. They are awful am I right? The water is pure. It isn’t dirty. Your interpretation of “pure water” is wrong. It’s awesome to see people like you who think they are just amazing people and know what’s best. I bet you drink bottled water. I bet you don’t recycle every piece of plastic. Then you come on the internet and tell people Fiji is wrong. Welcome to America.
in aqua veritas
Remember the first Batman movie where the Joker, Jack Nicholson, tried to put a poison in the water which wold give all the people in town a Super Smile? Well Joker= Government, Poison = Floride, and unfortunately there is no Batman to stop this madness!!!!!
and yes in Water is Truth…..
You’re all wrong! Pepsi is ultimately better for you and the acidity wears your teeth to nubs, who needs fluoride? Drink Pepsi
idiot!
I’m drinking Fiji water right now
Considering your statement about “added” contents if you haven’t noticed …because you probably had insufficient research that the water ITSELF contains those precious minerals that are crucial to human health especially silica. The water has not been tampered with prior to being bottled is what makes it so special and healthy to drink. I am a water fanatic i want to travel to Bimini just for the legendary fountain of youth, now before you go thinking i’m childish, i’m not it’s because they have natural springs that contain natural lithium and sulfur which is amazing for your mental well being. You need to understand that quality of water makes a huge impact of what we are putting in our body which is crucial to our health and how to survive and by far Fiji water is the best available in Canada
FIJI Water is simply the best tast better than others….
“which makes me wonder just what the people on Fiji are doing for water these days. Are they chugging on great big bottles of Oklahoma Water?” We are a lot more modern than you think! I’ve Lived in Fiji for 6 years and fiji water is easily available anywhere for cheap! 2 fijian dollars per bottle ($1 USA)