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Article

16 Aug 2009

Author:
Anna Lenzer, Mother Jones Online

Fiji Water: Spin the Bottle

Nowhere in Fiji Water's [part of Roll International] glossy marketing materials will you find reference to the typhoid outbreaks that plague Fijians because of the island's faulty water supplies; [or] of the military junta for which Fiji Water is a major source of global recognition and legitimacy…Half the country has at times relied on emergency water supplies, with rations as low as four gallons a week per family…Patients have reportedly had to cart their own water to hospitals, and schoolchildren complain about their pipes spewing shells, leaves, and frogs…[While] Fiji Water has nearly exclusive access to the aquifer; the notoriously corrupt and chronically broke government has not been able to come up with the money or infrastructure to tap the water for its people…