According to Circle of Blue WaterNews, S2C Global Systems, a San Antonio, Texas based company in partnership with Alaska Resource Management LLC, will be exporting 2.9 billion gallons (10.9 billion liters) of water a year, from Alaska to Mumbai, India.The operation is the first of its kind in that the water will be treated like other globally traded commodities to be shipped on ocean tankers.
Alaska Resource Management has struck a deal with the town of Sitka, Alaska to bulk extract water from the local resevior at 1 cent a gallon.
The water is planned to be shipped and offloaded in a Mumbai port, where it will be bottled into 2.5 to 5 liter containers and shipped around the region.
While states like California and Arizona ship their tap water from hundreds of miles away to meet demand, the concept of shipping water to be bottled thousands of miles, across oceans is new.
The trend of using a global water trade to solve local water purity issues is disturbing. It is highly unsustainable for many reasons to rely on water supplies from half way around the globe instead of working on the cleanliness of the local supply.
Foreign energy supplies are bad enough, no one should be in the position of being dependent on foreign water.
For a range of public opinion on this subject, see this article at CircleofBlue.org.
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