Talk:Fiji Water

message: Why is the fluoride not appearing in the side of the page? right below calcium... isn't that misinformation & possibly a bug? Mbignotti (talk) 19:33, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  stab at Quality Improvements 

message: According to a post at the Google Earth Community , the bottling plant is at . --ChrisRuvolo (t) 23:51, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible location of the bottling plant 

message: Viti Water, Fiji Water's wholly owned subsiderary, like many companies, pays taxes to the government.  In this case, the current government of Fiji is a brutal, repressive military government.  As of this writing, it is engaged in a battle with FIRCA (Fiji Islands Revenue and Customs Service), who is attempting to levy even higher taxes on it to support the military government (search 'Frank Bainimarama').
The US export market, thanks to Fiji Water, is the only source of foreign exchange in the country which has not 'tanked' since the military siezed control of the government.
Second, it is ironic that few people in Fiji have water!  In the urban areas, the water distribution system is old and plagued with repeated breakdowns.  In some areas, the water is brought in daily by tank trucks and people fill their water jugs with the tanked water hoping that it will last until the next day.  School closures due to water shortages are far from rare.
The water that the residents of Fiji drink is almost always from catchment systems, rather than artesian springs.  In the rural areas, typhoid, as well as other diseases spread via water are far from rare, as there is rarely any sewage treatment.  In addition, the catchment fields are often contaminated by human, pig, and chicken feces.
The sources that I'm citing are my eyes looking out my front door--Fijibusinessman (talk) 17:01, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Implications of Fiji Water to Fiji 

message: "But while Americans are able to get Fiji Water every day, Fiji's own people can't get any thenselves."
I'm sorry, but just seeing that thrown carelessly into the middle of the page blows my mind.  Quite honestly, it's a nonissue; Fiji's poor wouldn't be able to afford to tap into the artesian, so what is the point of this statement?  To make people feel guilty for purchasing Fiji water?  It doesn't belong. 
Keep things related to the company and, if you want, its effects on the Fiji economy.  Just be sure to keep the social commentary crusading out of the article. 24.3.61.3 (talk) 21:11, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: In other words an encyclopedia should steer clear of anything that smacks of social responsibility?  (Not complaining, just checking.)  Vaughan Pratt (talk) 07:19, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

text: *An encyclopedia isn't any more activist than a dictionary. Wikipedia is not a soapbox. --Hammersoft (talk) 13:01, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is this? 

message: I removed the terms "activists" and "environmentalists" because they do not cite specific activists or environmentalists, groups or individuals, so nobody can determine if they are notable or not and thus warrant inclusion... This even before we answer the question if its placement in this article is appropriate in regards to WP:NPOV, because the article is so short. Retran (talk) 09:11, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I found a United Nations source for that access to safe drinking water statistic.  It is a natural thing to wonder about, what the locals do for water considering water is a major export of this very small country. -- Beland (talk) 23:02, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for taking the time to find a citation. But including a statement comparing the access to drinker water stats to a UN report seems to be a creation of new material (as in, this comparison wasn't made in the source). The language as was written seemed intended to portray a sense of "irony" (see WP:SOAPS). Furthermore, I would argue it would be a WP:NPOV violation because this would apply to any industry that uses water operating in a country with poor residents. Also, due the length of the article, it's hard to keep the article in compliance with WP:UNDUE if this is pointed out, as it's an article on the bottled water, (wikipedia is not a soapbox, there are other venues on the internet to communicate these things, see WP:SOAPS). I hope this helps further the discussion on what should be included in this article. Retran (talk) 13:31, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Environmental and Social 

message: what is this "FIJI Water" throughout the article?
*The article title does not use all caps, and the text and title should match; so we ought to either change the title to "FIJI Water" or change the article text.
*But "FIJI" is not an acronym. It's just a name. So normally our MOS regarding capitalization of proper names would apply.
*I get that FIJI is how the company would prefer it to be rendered. But the controlling authority is preponderance of use in notable sources. (It is for that reason -- preponderance of usage of the company's typography in other sources, or lack of it -- that we make exceptions to our MOS for eBay etc. but not for Macy*s etc.)\
*Well Google Ngrams has (barely) heard of "Fiji Water" but not of "FIJI Water", and my first five (non-company) hits on Google use "Fiji Water", and that includes NPR and Huffpost (I didn't bother to look beyond that).
In fact, I'd kind of guess that only people using "FIJI Water" are the company, us, and maybe some obscure outliers. I think we ought to get with the program and for this reason have changed all instances in the article of "FIJI Water" to "Fiji Water", trusting that this will be satisfactory? Herostratus (talk) 09:33, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fiji Water vs FIJI Water 

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message: This section should be removed. Despite media coverage (what DOESN'T have media coverage, these days?), the event is trivial and has zero "lasting, historical significance." See WP:EVENTCRIT, WP:PERSISTENCE, and related. Brianga (talk) 04:43, 4 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: General Ization Talk   04:45, 4 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Keep  Disagree.  WP:Not paper.  WP:BRD Continuing interest.  Mentioned and adverted to during Trump's [2018 State of the Union Address]] last week, during which he made a point of demonstrating drinking Water (from a glass) with one hand. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 11:55, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

text: Hardly a consensus.  I will wait for further comments.  02:32, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trump video