Seawater Desalination – the Answer for Bottling Companies

SEAWATER
DESALINATION – THE
ANSWER FOR
BOTTLING COMPANIES

Seawater desalination has been an answer to almost
every industry for their water requirements.
Today the technology is used to provide water to
people for drinking purposes.
This happens in every corner of the world while bottling
companies keep on extracting water from natural
resources further driving it to exploitation.

After the recent news of conflict between Nestle and
community in two Canadian towns, a question in front of many
is whether the money is more important that environment.
Desalination technologies are still not used by bottling
companies as it takes too much money to build and maintain
one such plant.
This increases manufacturing costs leading to fewer profits.

But how long can the companies keep using natural
reserves to satisfy the public demand is a question to
think about.
Even though bottling companies won’t consider it, here
is why seawater desalination is the answer for a future
in the industry.

■ Setting up a factory on the coasts eliminates the question of water as
the oceans have an abundance of it.
■ The technology is expensive to use but also the regulations for the
terms of usage are more flexible compared to the ones in nature
reserve.

■ The cost of setting up this plant is more but over the years the fees of
compensation to get access to natural reserves will increase
tremendously. This is due to the ill-effects of exploiting precious
reserves.
■ The increasing conflicts worldwide can lead to complete elimination of
bottling companies from communities in the future. The companies,
therefore, must have a good plan to keep the brand afloat.
■ Avoiding such a conflict also helps you keep your brand’s goodwill
intact with the communities.

Although it is a solution for the supply of water, one
other point for the companies to contemplate on is the
matter of plastic bottles.
480 billion plastic bottles were sold last year as
opposed to 300 billion a decade ago.

This has led to an abrupt increase in plastic bottles in
oceans and landfills.
We will have to put our energy and money into the
research of recyclable plastic or material that does not
threaten our environment.