Hi -

I’m contacting you on behalf of FIJI Water and I wanted to provide you with
factually correct information about local access to drinking water.

The claim that “half the people in Fiji don’t have access to clean, safe
drinking water” is false. Reliable access to clean, safe drinking water is
common throughout much of Fiji, but there are still some remote villages where
infrastructure is lacking. We’re currently funding projects through the
FIJI Water Foundation to ensure that these communities are provided with a safe
water supply. FIJI Water has taken direct responsibility for providing water
access to the villages that surround our source in the Yaqara Valley. In
addition, FIJI Water has partnered with the Rotary Club to fund the Pacific
Water for Life Trust, which will provide the infrastructure, expertise and
skills necessary to deliver safe, clean and sustainable water to more than 100
additional communities, schools, health centers and nursing stations throughout
Fiji over the next two years.

FIJI Water provides thousands of cases of water a year to local villages in
Fiji who have been hit by cyclones or flash flooding to provide immediate access
to clean, safe water. The idea that exporting water reduces access to this
resource is not true; in fact, our export revenue is paying for the expansion of
water access at a pace that Fiji’s government has never achieved.

Thank you for your time. Please feel free to contact us if you have any
questions.

So I walked on and got myself a beverage from home later. I think of those Brita filter commercials. I don’t know if drinking bottled water is truly being a good steward of the world God has given us.