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Episode: Diving into the world of âfine waterâ
Description: Workers inside a small plant ferry sleek glass bottles along a conveyor as they fill with the springâs water. They place the finished product in cases and load them on trucks headed for neighboring Indiaâs upscale hotels and restaurants and richest families.
Ganesh Iyer, the managing partner of Veen Waters, which operates the plant, watches like a nervous parent. This natural mineral waterâsold as a premium brandâis his âbaby,â he says, newly born from beneath the pristine South Asian kingdom of Bhutan.
Like its many counterparts worldwideâcaptured from volcanic rock in Hawaii, from icebergs that have fallen fr...