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I'm happy!
Every time I fill my two 5 gallon blue bottles I'm getting an actual retail value of, let's see, 19 liters per 5 gallons, times $3.29, that's $62.51, times two bottles:
$125.02!!!
I'm drinking thousands of dollars worth of exotic Hawaiian water for free every year!
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How can Russell Ruderman put this tap water on his health food shelves to then be sold back to us at tourist prices?
The real question is, why do people pay $3 bucks a bottle for something they can get free a mile or two down the road?
It's an old zen story: Selling Water By The River.
“What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we perceive depends on what we look for. What we look for depends on what we think. What we think depends on what we perceive. What we perceive determines what we believe. What we believe determines what we take to be true. What we take to be true is our reality." -David Bohm
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Our county water supply gets paid for the thousands of gallons being taken daily, Don't they?
Yes. $1.80 per 1000 gallons (plus applicable fees for the connection).
Every time I fill my two 5 gallon blue bottles
$0.018 (wholesale), plus the connection fees (paid for with your tax dollars), plus $3/gallon for the gas to drive to the spigot...
HOTPE and Kalakoa, thank you for the humor and laugh.
With your implied mathematic's. Our electric producing Geothermal Power plant Uses the most underground water daily from around these parts. Something "over" 4 million gallons a day. Is this water resource being used by geothermal coming from the same water from Mauna loa or Mauna kea? With the same 14,000 feet of filtration process provided through our porous lava rock?
If so, maybe Puna could replace the current geothermal power plant with a water and bottling company or two?
The amount of local jobs that could be produced with water and bottling companies in place of the current geothermal industries, could be higher than the 1.2 jobs being created per Megawatt currently. Some 4,000,000 gallons a day of water at $3 a liter could equal $millions$, jobs, and safer communities by moving in a different direction with our precious resources. jmo
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"Whiskey Is for Drinking; Water Is for Fighting Over" -- Ancient Texas proverb
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Not to mention this adds even more plastic water bottles to our earth.
Jon in Keaau/HPP
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I think this falls under exploitation of natural resources, the tragedy of the commons, and the true cost of doing business. Figure out the environmental and long-term costs of providing and depleting our water supply, and charge all bulk or commercial users their fair share.
Also wouldn't hurt to show people how to purify their own water so we are not all dependent. There was a nice flyer on SODIS in the HA community center.
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According to the county Real Property Tax Division website, Waiakea’s parent company, Island Resource Group LLC, in April 2015 paid $800,000 for a warehouse building on Kalanianaole Avenue near the Port of Hilo that once housed Pacific Island Floors.
Emmons said the company plans to open a production plant there in the next few months that would supply Waiakea Water throughout the Islands. He said the plant would be capable of producing 5,000 to 10,000 pallets of water a year, with each pallet holding 71 cases.
“This will be good for the local economy,” Emmons said. “We’re looking forward to employing a lot of people and we’ll be distributing throughout the Islands soon.”
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Not everyone is going to Yale. We still need local employment.
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Putting aside, for the moment, that the bottled water industry is a complete rip-off, Gypsy's idea to replace PGV with a water extraction and bottling plant is intriguing. Not only would it require a source of energy on the island to close with all the costs associated with that, it would require it being replaced by an industry that requires a lot of power. Therefore, if I follow Gypsy's previous arguments on other threads, it would require a new PGV plant to be built in order to supply the power. Or we bring in more oil. Just to sell bottled water. At the same time that water is already available for very little cost.
Am I missing something?
