BOTTLED WATER

Brands Selected Under 1L Category

AQUAFINA KINLEY BISLERY RAIL NEER SABOLS

PARAMETERS CONSIDERED Conservation (0.4) Recycling (0.4) Providing relief (0.2)

Minerals Present
Aquafina Kinley Besleri (mg/l) Total dissolved solids (TDS) PH factor Calcium Chlorides Bicarbonate Magnesium Nitrate Sulphates Hardness 162 7.2 13.68 23 57.5 7.75 2 18.93 65.1 161 7.2 13.72 23 60 8.3 2 18.37 67.1 160 7.2 13.6 22 58 7.8 2 19.3 66.1 Sabols Rail neer

Manufacturing process
Pre filtration Polishing Filter UV treatment

Reverse Osmosis
Carbon Purification Clear Polishing Ozone generator

Aquafina
Positive water balance in 2009 In 2010 10.1 billion liters

of water replenished exceeding the intake of 5.8 billion liters. Positive water balance at three plant neighborhoods Compared to 2009 the water usage reduced to 2.6%. Provides safe water for 41000 people around the plant & improved water access to 130000. Provide access to safe water to 3 million people in developing countries by the end of 2015. In beverages plant reduced fossil fuel intensity by 1.6%. Reduce packaging weight by 350 million pounds, avoiding the creation of 1 billion pounds of landfill waste by 2012.

Aquafina
Reduce water & electricity consumption by 20% &

Fuel consumption by 25 % in 2015. (Pepsico). Committed to reduce GHG emission in operations & distribution chain. To increase the recycling rate to 50% in 2018 A new bottle that uses35% less plastic. Also new design that reduces the use of plastic by 50%. (Ecofina)

NGO Partners
TERI - The Energy and Resources Institute - Partner in

implementation of watershed management projects in Neelamangala and Uttaranchal ADI-Alternative Development Initiative - Partner in Watershed Management Projects in Kerala, Punjab and Maharashtra Exnora Green Pammal - Partner in Waste to Wealth Programmes Akshaya Patra Providing food for children CAF India Committed to increase flow of cash to NGO CAP Foundation - Partner in training and provide alternate livelihood options for Tsunami affected communities in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.

NGO Partners
Swashrit Society - Partner in Get Active programmes, to

promote active and healthy lifestyles among kids Project Healing Touch - Partner in Mission Vijay II: Programme to provide ex-servicemen with sustainable livelihoods Youthreach India - Partner in People with Purpose programme International Labor Organisation - Partner in creating and implementing its HIV/AIDS Workplace Policy

Kinley
The Replenishing of water used is equivalent to 23% of the

ground water used. At the end of 2010, our system in India had installed more than 400 rainwater harvesting structures spread across 22 states. Water used for producing 1 liter is 2.26 liter which is 4% lower than 2009. By 2015, improve packaging material efficiency per liter of product sold by 7 percent compared with a 2008 baseline. By 2015, Recover 50 percent of the equivalent bottles and cans used annually. In 2010, they sponsored 1.2 % of operating income ($102 million)

Kinley
The Coca-Cola Company has developed a proprietary

device called energy management system (EMS).The EMS is a device that reduces energy consumption of a cooler up to 35% by allowing the temperature inside the cooler to rise (between 7C to 14C) during periods when the retail outlet is closed and maintains the correct cooler temperature By the end of 2009, 191 product delivery vehicles owned by our bottling partners in Delhi were operating on Compressed Natural Gas (CNG).

Bisleri
The Bisleri trust called the Jayanti Lal Chauhan Trust

(JCERT) works extensively in areas of ground water augmentation and rain water harvesting. JCERT has successfully completed 35 projects of check dam construction, mostly in the state of Gujarat. Through these projects JCERT has managed to conserve 10 billion litres of rain water. The Trust also aids several non government organizations, which work in the areas of water conservation especially in rural India. In 2010, 500 tones of pet bottles recycled, by 2011 they planned for 1000 tones.

Bisleri
Rainwater harvesting project in the year 2011:
Mumbai Airport (8500 million liters) Bisleri Mumbai Plant. International Centre Goa. Delhi Airport. Renewal of Mumbai Lakes.

Rail Neer
To enhance passenger amenities, the IRCTC launched Rail

Neer, a branded packaged drinking water for the rail Passengers. Rail Neer is processed, purified and bottled at state-of-art plants. Completely automatic plant and no manual handling of product water at any stage. IRCTC stands for quality and has a key role in ensuring service and product of the highest quality for the rail passenger as well as visitor to any railway premises. High quality product can only be ensured when production is in-house under full control and supervision of IRCTC.

Sabols
Sabols is a trademark drinking water product from

Aasheerwath Enterprise, Thiruvallur, Tamil Nadu. It is considered as one of the leading mineral water brands in Tamil Nadu. Sabols water is uv treated, ozonized and goes under the process of reverse osmosis. After Aquafina, sabols is the most best and purified water in India.

Analysis

Aquafina Conservation (0.4) Recycling (0.4) 1.8 1.4

Kinley 0.8 1.2

Besleri 1.6 1.2

Sabols -

Rail neer -

Providing Relief (0.2)

0.6

0.6

0.4

Total out of 5

3.8

3.2

Comparison
Rank 1 Company Aquafina Points 3.8 Price 16

Besleri

3.2

16

Kinley

16

Sabols

16

Rail neer

12

Recommendation of Brand
By the evaluation Aquafina stands better than any

other company.

Conclusion
Bottled water can cost more per gallon than tap water. Plastic bottles can leach chemicals into the water if left in

the sun, heated up, or reused several times which creates various health problems. Bottled water is a drain on the environment: More than 80 percent of recyclable plastic bottles end up in landfills each year. Bottled water means garbage: it produces up to 1.5 million tons of plastic waste per year that plastic requires up to 47 million gallons of oil per year to produce.