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By Zenith International Chairman, Richard Hall
Bottled water food miles – fact and fiction

Some UK politicians have accused bottled water of a massive environmental impact, condemning huge amounts that travel thousands of miles.

Fiji Water in The Grocer at the weekend said its water only comes by ship, and a full year's UK imports created less carbon than a return flight from London to New York. Yet somehow, BBC Panorama couldn't avoid its flight to Fiji to investigate.

If Fiji water is wrong, what about the £2 billion of wine imports from Australasia, South America and South Africa? And why not ban beer from Mexico or India, vodka from Russia, cut flowers from Kenya or computers from Japan?

It's not wrong. It's not right. It's a choice.

Certainly, we'll all have to wise up environmentally about some of the choices we make, and it's perfectly fair to have a debate about them. But let the debate be informed and proportionate, starting with once-respected institutions such as Parliament and the BBC.