It’s the Water, And a Lot More
“We couldn’t ask for better sales,” says a spokesman for Koyo USA in Kona, Hawaii. “At this point, we can’t make enough.” The company is “making” water by sucking it out of the sea, running it through a salt removal process, and selling it to eager customers in Japan for $4-6 per bottle. Koyo says it’s shipping more than 200,000 bottles per day, and is eager to expand its distribution. “There’s a lot of water out there,” says Mark Anderson of Hawaii’s Foreign-Trade Zone Division. “I don’t think they’re going to run out.” (AP) ...Odds of the plant running out of sea water: low. Odds of its customers running out of money: significantly higher.
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