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Starting a bottled water company...printing money right? (1 Viewer)

mr roboto said:
1. Bottled water is a total commodity at this point (except for very specific brand names).

2. It's an industry with the biggest players in the world being companies like Coke and Pepsi. They are kinda good at scaling production, marketing, distribution and sales.

3. You are none of those things. When you are a very small player in a huge, commoditized industry, you need to be really good at whatever it is you sell and have a very specific niche (coffee). Bottled water offers NONE of these.

4. The ground water up there sucks. If it's so plentiful AND cheap AND wonderful, guess what?!?!??! One of those big players would already be there.
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Sabertool iron filled semi-natural spring water

Has a nice ring to it if you can get the permits, the land, and can figure out the technology, bottling, distribution and marketing.

You're on your way to fame and riches!!!!!!!

 
Actually people buy copper bracelets and swish with ionized silver water...

####, he may have accidentally...

:furiouslycallsOtis:

 
You would have to build a plant to purify and bottle the water. Before that you'd have to own the place where the water is. Then you would have to convince places to sell it. The you'd have to market it so people would buy it. I think a better idea would be to sell pictures of the lakes and streams.

 
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Willie Neslon said:
You would have to build a plant to purify and bottle the water. Before that you'd have to own the place where the water is. Then you would have to convince places to sell it. The you'd have to market it so people would but it. I think a better idea would be to sell pictures of the lakes and streams.
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:lmao: :lmao: :lmao:

 
I am thinking of boxing up some of the clean mountain air around here and selling it to the good people of LA. I figure in a year I could be Eminence rich, and 5-10 years Chet rich if I can get a good social media campaign going. I might require the help of the FFA to pull this off. Anyone in?

 
chauncey said:
I am thinking of boxing up some of the clean mountain air around here and selling it to the good people of LA. I figure in a year I could be Eminence rich, and 5-10 years Chet rich if I can get a good social media campaign going. I might require the help of the FFA to pull this off. Anyone in?
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If you need to build a (wooden) warehouse to store your air while the LA atmosphere deteriorates, and maybe some water to drink while you build it, I may know a supplier.

#synergy

 
chauncey said:
I am thinking of boxing up some of the clean mountain air around here and selling it to the good people of LA. I figure in a year I could be Eminence rich, and 5-10 years Chet rich if I can get a good social media campaign going. I might require the help of the FFA to pull this off. Anyone in?
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I can supply the pipeline to get the air from there to LA.

What is the tax benefit of all this? Must be bananas

 
Here's what I would do. We all know California needs water. You have plenty.

It's about 2394 miles from the UP to Los Angeles. You're gonna need 12,640,320 feet of 10" PVC pipe from Home Depot. Including fittings, figure about $20/feet. You might be able to negotiate that down because of the quantity.

So, your start up cost on materials is only $252,804,600. Not including labor.

Since labor is relatively cheap up there, start building. Put end #1, pipe 1 into the nearest Great Lake of your choice. Attach coupling to end #2. Attach end #1, pipe 2, to coupling attached to end #2, pipe 1.

Repeat until you get to the first reservoir you find in Los Angeles. Wala, goldmine!

 
WTF???

I came back here hoping to find answers on how to get rich selling the water from the pond by my house.

You guys are completely worthless around here.

 
ChiefD said:
Here's what I would do. We all know California needs water. You have plenty.

It's about 2394 miles from the UP to Los Angeles. You're gonna need 12,640,320 feet of 10" PVC pipe from Home Depot. Including fittings, figure about $20/feet. You might be able to negotiate that down because of the quantity.

So, your start up cost on materials is only $252,804,600. Not including labor.

Since labor is relatively cheap up there, start building. Put end #1, pipe 1 into the nearest Great Lake of your choice. Attach coupling to end #2. Attach end #1, pipe 2, to coupling attached to end #2, pipe 1.

Repeat until you get to the first reservoir you find in Los Angeles. Wala, goldmine!
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Have you considered he could save money since its downhill from UP to CA?

 
Cjw_55106 said:
ChiefD said:
Here's what I would do. We all know California needs water. You have plenty.

It's about 2394 miles from the UP to Los Angeles. You're gonna need 12,640,320 feet of 10" PVC pipe from Home Depot. Including fittings, figure about $20/feet. You might be able to negotiate that down because of the quantity.

So, your start up cost on materials is only $252,804,600. Not including labor.

Since labor is relatively cheap up there, start building. Put end #1, pipe 1 into the nearest Great Lake of your choice. Attach coupling to end #2. Attach end #1, pipe 2, to coupling attached to end #2, pipe 1.

Repeat until you get to the first reservoir you find in Los Angeles. Wala, goldmine!
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Have you considered he could save money since its downhill from UP to CA?
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I was counting on that. That's why I didn't include a pump.

 
Transportation costs can be substantial... the water needs to be transported from the source to the plant, and then from the plant to distribution facility. if you're in a remote area, that means a lot of added costs just for that.

Then you get into the definition of "spring water"... Poland Spring has been called on the carpet for this, as their water comes from deep wells, not really a spring.

Quality of water... you need low ppm on the dissolved solids unless you're marketing as mineral water, and then you need the right mix of minerals.

The guys you should really envy are the big soda companies that came up with the idea of filtering & bottling tap water and putting a fancy name on it. :angry:

 
Sabertooth said:
mr roboto said:
I will say though that MN MI WISC (I'm sure a few others) are sitting on absolute gold as other places are overpopulated and struggle with drought.
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This is my thought as well. There is no new water but as population booms, the static supply of water is going to make it more and more expensive.

Even right now a bottled water is expensive than gasoline.
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bottled water isn't more expensive than gasoline because of any supply/demand forces - I mean, there is plenty of drinking water available for practically free, anywhere in the country.

It's expensive because (1) it's convenient, (2) marketing has tricked people into thinking it's superior, and (3) there are places with high mineral tap water which make bottled water better, but simple carbon filtration would do the trick for a fraction of the cost.

all of bottled water is a giant scam.

 
moleculo said:
Sabertooth said:
mr roboto said:
I will say though that MN MI WISC (I'm sure a few others) are sitting on absolute gold as other places are overpopulated and struggle with drought.
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This is my thought as well. There is no new water but as population booms, the static supply of water is going to make it more and more expensive. Even right now a bottled water is expensive than gasoline.
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bottled water isn't more expensive than gasoline because of any supply/demand forces - I mean, there is plenty of drinking water available for practically free, anywhere in the country.It's expensive because (1) it's convenient, (2) marketing has tricked people into thinking it's superior, and (3) there are places with high mineral tap water which make bottled water better, but simple carbon filtration would do the trick for a fraction of the cost.

all of bottled water is a giant scam.
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Not really. It depends what you are trying to get in your water and OUT of it, more importantly.
 
So I'm thinking creating a mat with different conclusions on it that you can jump to.

 
The truth of the matter is clean, toxin free water is readily available and cheep at just about any grocery store where they sell it for around $0.30/gal, either reverse osmosis or distilled out of a tap they have. Most bottled waters do a terrible job at supplying what they market themselves as.

 
jurb26 said:
The truth of the matter is clean, toxin free water is readily available and cheep at just about any grocery store where they sell it for around $0.30/gal, either reverse osmosis or distilled out of a tap they have. Most bottled waters do a terrible job at supplying what they market themselves as.
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exactly.

As a side note, how do you find Charlotte tap water?

 
jurb26 said:
The truth of the matter is clean, toxin free water is readily available and cheep at just about any grocery store where they sell it for around $0.30/gal, either reverse osmosis or distilled out of a tap they have. Most bottled waters do a terrible job at supplying what they market themselves as.
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You mean those plastic jugs my mom used to get to put in the iron? Aren't those around a $1 (still cheaper though).

 
moleculo said:
jurb26 said:
The truth of the matter is clean, toxin free water is readily available and cheep at just about any grocery store where they sell it for around $0.30/gal, either reverse osmosis or distilled out of a tap they have. Most bottled waters do a terrible job at supplying what they market themselves as.
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exactly.As a side note, how do you find Charlotte tap water?
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I'll be kind and simply say I don't drink it.... See above for what I do.
 
Binky The Doormat said:
jurb26 said:
The truth of the matter is clean, toxin free water is readily available and cheep at just about any grocery store where they sell it for around $0.30/gal, either reverse osmosis or distilled out of a tap they have. Most bottled waters do a terrible job at supplying what they market themselves as.
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You mean those plastic jugs my mom used to get to put in the iron? Aren't those around a $1 (still cheaper though).
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Yes, need to have BPA free plastic though. Glass is the ideal container but they are expensive and if you're like me you don't want to lug around 5 gal jugs every where you go. Unless they are on a female...
 
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