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The beer
that you buy at the Kodiak Island Brewing Company is made with water from local
streams, filtered right here in town. And now it’s being used for more than
just brewing beer. A month ago, the brewery began selling inexpensive, locally
filtered water. Mary Donaldson has more.
Brewery owner Ben Millstein has a quote he
likes to share with people: “Coals to Newcastle.”
Newcastle is a place in England where
coal is traditionally mined, and the idea of taking coal there seems a little
redundant. That’s what Millstein has in mind when he thinks of bottled water
being shipped to Kodiak, where water resources are abundant.
He says we should be utilizing our
local water resources, rather than buying bottled water shipped in from out of
state.
(Millstein 1 :27s “…can
we do here.”)
He says the idea of filtering local
water and selling it to the public came from the city of San Francisco putting a ban on spending
government money on bottled water, since they have their own water resources.
He says he would like to see Kodiak
put a stop to sales of bottled water in local businesses, but for now, he would
like to get the idea out to the public.
(Millstein 2 :20s “…way of beginning the conversation.”)
Millstein says since he filters local
water at his brewery already, selling it to the public is not a hassle. He says
a big reason for wanting to sell filtered water is because of the energy costs
of shipping bottled water to the island.
(Millstein 3 :44s “…when
it’s unnecessary.”)
Millstein also suggests that the
Kodiak community can buy water filters for their homes to filter the water
already accessible to them as another way avoid purchasing bottled water. He says anyone can stop by the Kodiak
Island Brewery and have a growler or similar sized container filled with
filtered water for one dollar. The Brewery is open noon to seven Monday through
Saturday.
I’m Mary
Donaldson.
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