The World's Most Expensive Water

by Rigel Celeste (RSS feed)
Aug 11th 2007 at 12:02PM

People pay money for water every day, even though it's free in the majority of places on Earth. So if we're already paying for it, why not pay a lot for it, right? Well that's apparently the philosophy of the Japanese, who for a while now have been making big business of buying very expensive desalinated seawater concentrate from off the coasts of Hawaii. Called Kona Nigari, it sells for $33.50 per two-ounce bottle of concentrate and is meant to be diluted in a bottle of regular water (add $1.99 to the bill). It's credited with aiding weight loss, stress reduction, skin tone, and digestion. And apparently this Hawaiian seawater is special -- people pay more for the Kona Nigari than for similar concentrates from waters closer to Japan.

Via Lussorian

Tags: concentrate, concentrated, deep sea, DeepSea, hawaii, hawaiian, japan, japanese, kona, kona nigari, KonaNigari, minerals, most expensive, MostExpensive, nigari, ocean, water

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Jim Powell Aug 18th 2007 2:12PM

I thought ICE were the guys chasing the Mexicans around.

andrew jung Aug 18th 2007 2:16PM

Remember Gold Sushi and Gold Sake? Japanese are peculier,not special, and they believe they should be different from all others. Remeber a Japanese archiologist buried some artifacts himself and claimed he unearthed so many thousand years old history that proved Japanese culture is the oldest one in the world ? They play commedy and that is not funny to the rest of the world citizens who are uncilivilized world to their eyes.

Ruslan Aug 20th 2007 12:48AM

still. too small of a price to pay for stupidity.

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