To: TopCat who wrote (22128 ) 11/27/1997 7:24:00 PM From: shades Respond to of 55532
<<It is a debate that could intensify as competitors in the bottled water 'industry, whose sales grew annually at double digits through the 1980s but have since slowed, fight for market share.>> My point exactly...thanks DD. TC But what is very interesting is that alot of these bottlers are pulling water and selling it that is just as polluted as the water from someones tap, they live in highly populated areas or agricultural regions, all of which Ten Sleep is free from. Ten Sleep knows they have a VERY VERY valuable commodity, good clean clear water, and the closer to california the better. The frieght will be cheaper from wyoming to california than from georgia to california, so they win again. The town knew this and actively sought out a company to make them rich, which I feel RMIL will do. But they are like the people here that let fear rule their investment decisions, they want it all now and are getting tired of waiting, but they are on a goldmine and they know it. Patience will be they key. As the standards improve in the water industry it can do nothing but help RMIL, as the big companies have to pull from polluted areas and then use reverse osmosis or distillation to clean their water it gets very expensive per gallon to create, and then the shipping costs to california where a THIRD of all bottled water is consumed, man the more fundmentals I look at the more I am going to buy RMIL, thanks for sending me in this direction. One other issue, I lived through hurricanes in hawaii, I have been through the floods of the southeast, when there is no water or the water supply is contaminated you become very afraid. Who cares about houses or cars or gold or money or electricity when you have nothing to drink, i remember in 1982 after hurrican IWA hit hawaii bottled water had to be impoted to the islands for all the stores were gone or destroyed, and before the government stepped in for disaster relief it was selling for over $15 a bottle, another feather to put in your cap. Water will become more and more valuable as good clean sources of it decrease.