Bottled Water Plant in Middle Of The Ocean

Thats right! With the permission of the Texas General Land Office, a Minneapolis based company is building a bottled water plant in the ocean. But that's not the big news. The big news is that the power for the desalination process will be provided by a patented pump called the "Seadog" which will harness wave power to generate electricity. That's very cool.

Desalinated sea water for use as bottled water is not new. There is a company operating a ship off the cost of Hawaii that is pumping sea water from the deep depths of the ocean then bottling and distributing it. There are also small operations in arid areas of the world that bottle desalinated seawater. But this company has developed a process that is claimed to be the first 100% fossil-fuel free bottled water! That's really cool. For more information on sea water desalination click on the link.

Faith Based Custom Labels On Bottled Water

In earlier blogs I spoke about the popularity of custom label bottled water as an advertising medium for both large and small businesses. Custom Label bottled water is also popular as a fund raiser for non-profit groups. These can be churches, civic groups, little leaque, soccer and cheer leading organizations, just to name a few. But the largest group in the non-profit segment is probably churches and other faith based religious groups. These groups are very important customers for custom label water companies. It seems that spring and summer are the busiest times when faith based groups get the word out about their services and special events by passing our bottled water to the faithful with their message imprinted on the label. Many groups customize their own labels but many others choose to select a label from "The Living Water Project", a faith based organization and ministry. The organization offers about a dozen different pre-designed labels from which church groups and other faith based organizations can choose from. After choosing the label the customer can then have their organization name, address, telephone number and web site imprinted on the label. The most popular label by far is the "Living Water" label that includes quotations from Romans and also John 4:14. High quality graphics make the label a joy to behold.
"Our product is designed to encourage the Christian Community to share the gospel of Jesus Christ, in an innovative way, by means of Christian based labels on bottled water, said organization founder E.C. Florez. He adds " Each label contains an attention getting title and scripture that causes the reader to reflect on God’s word and the Holy Spirit to do His work. Each label offers a salvation invitation."

The Living Water Project was founded just a few years ago and the bottled water and labels are provided nationwide by Bottled Water Store.com.

Bottled Water Store.com Private Label Program Highly Praised

Bottled Water Store.com has been selling brand name bottled water products on-line for over 10 years now. But, with the exception of there many customers, few realize that they also offer private and custom label bottled water. And not just regional but nationwide. Most bottling companies market and distribute their products to their regional market. This makes sense from a shipping pint of view. A case of bottled water is heavy.

Bottled Water Store.com partners with regional bottling companies that provide not only bottled water but also labels and label art services. Together with their partners, Bottled Water Store.com can ship economically to all parts of the USA. And because the price per bottle is usually lower than their competition, customers have the highest praise for this enterprising company.

To see a list of testimonials go to www.bottledwaterstore.com/Privatelabel.htm.

Smartwater is America's Sweet Heart

New bottled water products are launched all the time. There are probably two dozen a year. Sadly, or luckily,depending on the product, most of these fail or disappear within months. But there is one product became highly successful but has won the hearts and minds of the American bottled water consumer. That product is Glaceau "Smartwater".

Smartwater was launched approximately 5 years ago along with Glaceau's other successful product line of Vitamin waters. But Smartwater is the purified water product with added electrolytes (calcium and magnesium additives) that promises to make you smart if you drink it. How can you go wrong with a promise like that. And thousands over the years have accepted the challenge.

The original bottles included a "Genius" meter printed on the side of the bottle. The more you drank the smarter you became and when the bottle was empty the meter indicated that you reached genius level. Very cute. Very creative.

Smartwater continues to be a huge selling product for the Coca Cola company which purchased the product line from Energy Brands in 2007. Smartwater can be found in many retail stores and also on-line at Bottled Water Store.com. Smartwater is the best selling product at Bottled Water Store.com. Customers like to have cases delivered to their door at home or work and often purchased Smartwater as gifts.

The US Is Using Less Water

The US is using less water than during the peak years of 1975 and 1980, according to water use estimates for 2005.

Assistant secretary of the interior, Anne Castle, announced the report – ‘Estimated Use of Water in the US in 2005’ – as part of her keynote speech at the Atlantic Water Summit in the National Press Club.

The report shows that, in 2005, Americans used 410 billion gallons a day, slightly less than in 2000. The declines are attributed to the increased use of more efficient irrigation systems and alternative technologies at power plants.

Water withdrawals for public supply have increased steadily since 1950 (when USGS began the series of five-year trend reports) along with the population that depends on these supplies.

Nearly half (49%) of the 410 billion gallons per day used by Americans was for producing electricity at thermoelectric power plants. Irrigation accounted for 31% and public supply 11% of the total. The remaining 9% of the water was for self-supplied industrial, livestock, aquaculture, mining and rural domestic uses.

“Because electricity generation and irrigation accounted for a massive 80% of our water use in 2005, the improvements in efficiency and technology give us hope for the future,” Castle said.

The largest uses of fresh surface water were power generation and irrigation, and the states with the largest fresh surface water uses were California, Texas, Idaho and Illinois. The largest use of fresh groundwater was irrigation, and the states with the largest fresh groundwater uses were California, Texas, Nebraska and Arkansas.

The smallest use of ground water was for botted water - (this blogger).

Bottled Water Store.com Delivers In Space

Bottled Water Saves Lives, Again.

I don't wish to offend anyone but I have to tell you that hardly a week goes by that I don't get an Email or a comment to a blog from someone who is anti bottled water. It is of course perfectly respectable to have an opinion pro or con about anything but what usually happens is that, in the end, the writer is just pushing a product of some sort. These are usually water filters, RO systems, tap water etc. Please don't misunderstand stand me, these are wonderful products and I am involved with all of them, more than you would think. So it is that when the writer recommends the end of bottled water for much overplayed reasons, I cant help but become dismayed. That is because not one of the substitutions for bottled water has ever saved lives in an emergency, such as a hurricane or flood.

Last week the Southeast, and Georgia especially, suffered from heavy rains and severe flooding. Ten people died while emergency crews searched  for others reported missing. The Govenor of Geogia declared a state of emergency in the 17 counties hardest hit by the severe weather, which caused $280,000,000 in damage thoughout Georgia.

Today I read that Nestle Waters of North America quickly donated 5000 one gallon bottles of water to communities affected by the disaster.  There were no water filters, RO systems or tap water donated. What would happen if bottled water companies were to close and disappear over time because of the "conspiracy" against it?

In 2008, Nestle Waters delivered more than 2.7 million bottles of water to citizens and relief workers affetced by natural disasters and emergencies, as per Alex McIntosh, director of corporate citizenship.

Read more about Nestle's donation and the Georgia Floriding at bottledwaterstore.com.