Demineralized mineral water for $33 a bottle

[Taro Toporific]

Buying or selling demineralized mineral water for $33 a bottle: WOTS funnier? Maybe the name?

Hawaii's Bottled Seawater Industry Booming(Wednesday, April 14, 2004 1:37:30 PM / Honolulu-AP) --Several Hawaii companies are taking the bottled water concept to another level. Consumers, especially from Japan, are paying top dollar for a bottle for desalinated Hawaiian deep-sea water.
The seawater is being marketed as a mineral-rich, dietary supplement.....
Small bottles of Kona Nigari seawater were selling for 33-dollars in Waikiki this week.

[Mulboyne]

[floatl][/floatl]LaTimes: Hawaii Makes Splash Selling Deep Seawater
State exports of desalinated deep seawater soared 700% during the first three months of this year to $8.8 million, topping chocolate and coffee as Hawaii's biggest food-related foreign export. The seawater is being marketed as healthy, pure, mineral-rich drinking water, and is popular in Japan. The water is collected from a depth of 3,000 feet off Kailua-Kona at the state Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority. Koyo USA Corp. was the state's first and remains its largest bottler of deep seawater, producing about 250,000 1.5-liter bottles a day for export to Japan. The company expects to open a third plant at the energy laboratory this summer, quadrupling production to 1 million bottles a day.