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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Greenland to Sell Bottled Water from Melting Glaciers [Watch (HLS stream): Greenland to Sell Bottled Water from Melting Glaciers](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/MuIXUkDl.m3u8) (2:48)  _Published 2009-12-13. As the ice recedes, Greenland's government seeks to exploit new-found minerals and will bottle melted glacier ice to sell in supermarkets_ --- Jul 27, 2023 1:16 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Greenland's Ice Is Melting Much Faster Than Previously Thought, Scientists Say ](/video/SNXOpDzy/) ### Greenland's Ice Is Melting Much Faster Than Previously Thought, Scientists Say [Melting Glaciers](/video/dLp8oHOH/) ### Melting Glaciers [Consequences as Himalayan Glaciers Melt](/video/ClMhElSR/) ### Consequences as Himalayan Glaciers Melt --- ## Transcript >> There's an old joke about a man who goes ice fishing and brings home 800 pounds of ice. His wife fried it and they both drowned. But in Greenland fishing for ice is no joke and it could be smart business. >> It's a romantic business I would say because it is, actually, you go out on a boat, you have of course all this machinery to bring up the ice from the water, and to clean it and then save it in containers. >> And some in Greenland are suggesting it be bottled and sold in your local supermarket, fresh water from the melting glaciers of Greenland on the shelf next to your Evian and Fiji brands. >> Well, when the market started picking up with all kind of exclusive drinking water, of course somebody started thinking about using the resources of Greenland as we do have a lot of ice here. >> A lot of ice indeed. A recent report published in the Journal of Science found that between the years of 2000 and 2008, Greenland lost around 1, 500 billion tons of ice equivalent to 166 billion tons a year. >> Nature's own knife has sliced this historic product and sent it crashing into the ocean creating enormous icebergs that float elegantly into the open sea, a resource possessing fantastic potential. >> But there's an unavoidable environmental irony in Greenland's potential business. The Auckland based Pacific Institute estimates that the annual consumption of bottled water in 2007, a year in which the U. S. consumed 8. 8 million gallons of bottled water required the equivalent between 32 and 54 million barrels of oil. That same year Napcor, a plastic container recycling organization reported that 76 percent of the bottles were not recycled. And what about the criticism that the bottled water industry isn't exactly the most environmentally friendly industry? >> On the other side this is a resource that would disappear anyway. So this is either we use all this fantastic ice laying around or it will melt and disappear in the ocean. The world's ice on Greenland are there now because of the climate change but fishing of ice that-- we could have done that for thousands of years if we had the idea or the possibility to do it or the market to sell it on. >> With the commodity in the market in place Greenlandic water will be on shelves soon but like the fisherman and his wife, the catch may put us underwater. 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