Mineral water made of tap water
An interneter bewildered by Master Kang bottled water’s campaign slogan “chosen fine water source”, did careful field research at a main water factory of the brand in Hangzhou, and found out that the water source are just tap water.
Many bottled water brands like Master Kang, Robust, Nong Fu ect make nice advert about how their water are delicately purified with added healthy elements, or naturally made, so we customers believe our purchase are worthy.
But customers feel hurted if the adverts are lies, especially when it happened on things people eat and drink. No one would buy 500 ml tap water for 1 yuan, that is probably enough for 1 ton tap water. Younger generation regard bottled water as natural, mineral included and healthy, so that some of them donot drink boiled water as much as their parents do. A lot of water adverts are misleading.
Master Kang apologized for the untrue adverts, and said some regions’ products are indeed natural water, as in North East China provinces.
Tags: mineral water
September 8th, 2008 at 11:11 am
yeah there’ve been scandals like this in the US too!
September 9th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
There certainly have, however…well, I think I’d rather drink some tap water in LA than Guangzhou.
September 10th, 2008 at 4:45 am
@Rick
only because you haven’t been to LA recently O_o
September 10th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
That is very true. I’ve been through guangzhou though, and, there’s nothing to turn you off tap water like seeing a pig carcass floating down the river
September 11th, 2008 at 12:24 am
ummmm…pork flavored water…yum…those Chinese, always so bleeding edge!
September 11th, 2008 at 8:43 am
so we drink boiled water. if water company could purify water to a directly drinkable standard , it would save the planet since less bottled water needed in the market.
September 11th, 2008 at 8:47 am
This is a paranoid world. now and then there were people saying that they found floating odd material in Cola, bottled water, …, etc. unknown it is rumor or what . Probably some company hire people who made ugly story to attack their commercial opponents.
September 11th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
@nonkidding
The cost and negative effect of the process for purification for *ALL* water that comes out of a tap would likely outweigh the cost and negative effect of the process for purification of select higher cost fractionally used bottled/distilled water…of course, this is a total estimation without any factual statistical basis, but I think it’s a fair one to make. I’m from Canada, people still drink out of lakes directly there (in many places), I mean, we have the most clean fresh water in the world, but places without that benefit would have significant cost to purify heavily polluted water when a majority of that would not be consumed by humans.
September 14th, 2008 at 2:01 am
You’re judging from a cost perspective, Rick. Nonkidding’s point still stands. One shouldn’t have to pay extra for something that used to be free.
I remember the mirthful dread when i entered oxygen bars.
September 14th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
@Rick
btw how were the olympics? they looked good from afar!
September 17th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
@Anil
Missed my point, not just cost in terms of money, but addressing this part of nonkidding’s post:
“it would save the planet since less bottled water needed in the market.” — my point with cost and negative effect being that there would be more pollutants released through the purification process to make ‘all’ water coming from a tap directly drinkable.
The Olwhat? I think I mentioned my boycotting, and I think I snuck in a total of..maybe..4 hours, basketball, had to do it.
TV just like you, though.
September 27th, 2008 at 3:15 am
Nothing on the melamine scandal? It’s front page news here, Japan and Europe and not even a word on Xinhua.
Any thoughts?
October 1st, 2008 at 11:33 am
@Brian
I eat melaminos for breakfast, sometimes brown sugar on top.
October 4th, 2008 at 5:22 am
Hey man, I grew up drinkin’ Lake Erie water and there’s nothing wrong with me.
October 5th, 2008 at 12:38 am
yeah well, other than the pervasive delusion that I’m Anil, there’s nothing wrong with me either.
Santé,
Jacqueline du Chevalier
October 6th, 2008 at 11:47 am
I think this site has faded, i’ve started playing on chinasmack though
some good controversial posts there you guys will like
October 7th, 2008 at 12:08 am
http://www.chinasmack.com/stories/pretty-foreign-girl-in-beijing-please-give-me-a-hug/
wish i could read tianya. those comments crack me up!
October 10th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
@Rick
I posted a reply a while back to your Chinasmack referral but it had a link so here it is again:
I loved the Tianya comments on “Pretty Foreign Girl in Beijing: ‘Please Give Me A Hug’” from Chinasmack! Sure wish I could read Tianya :/ Thanks for the referral although chinasmack doesn’t look like my cup of tea. just in case: Good talkin to ya all these months
October 16th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Google translate 4 life!