{"id":13608,"date":"2007-07-09T05:20:03","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T12:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/07\/09\/chanches-of-buying-counterfeit-water-in-beijng-1-in-2-beijing-times\/"},"modified":"2007-07-09T05:20:03","modified_gmt":"2007-07-09T12:20:03","slug":"chanches-of-buying-counterfeit-water-in-beijng-1-in-2-beijing-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/07\/chanches-of-buying-counterfeit-water-in-beijng-1-in-2-beijing-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Chanches of Buying Counterfeit Water in Beijng 1 in 2 &#8211; Beijing Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/U50P1T1D13403122F21DT20070709042318.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"U50P1T1D13403122F21DT20070709042318.jpg\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/U50P1T1D13403122F21DT20070709042318-thumb.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"91\" \/><\/a>Beijing is facing a second sort of water crisis, not as deadly as its dwindling ground water supplies but disturbing nonetheless. Translated from Beijing Times via sina.com (Photo Quiz: Which is water is bottled, from the tap, and fake? Answer at the end of story):\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBeijing&#8217;s bottled water professionals recently spilled a major secret: Half of Beijing&#8217;s bottled water, equivalent to more than 100 million barrels a year and worth 1 billion yuan, is counterfeit. Major targets are the big four brands, Wahaha (<span style=\"font-family:STHeiti;\">\u00c2\u00ae\u00c9\u00c2\u00ec\u00e0\u00c2\u00ec\u00e0<\/span>), Robust (<span style=\"font-family:STHeiti;\">\u2030\u03c0\u00ea\u00c1\u00f4\u00e6\u00ca\u221e\u00e8<\/span>), Nestle (<span style=\"font-family:STHeiti;\">\u00c8\u00f5\u00c4\u00c2\u2211\u00a2<\/span>) and Yanjing (<span style=\"font-family:STHeiti;\">\u00c1\u00e1\u00ef\u2030\u222b\u00a8<\/span>), with a combined annual sales of 25-30 million bottles.\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\nThe bottled water market first exploded in 1997. In 2002, counterfeit products, also known as No. 2 water, accounted for 20% of all bottled water. In five years, counterfeit bottles have swept through half of Beijing. One Guangdong water firm tried to enter the Beijing market only find it was impossible: Nearly every one of the 1,000 or so water stations it approached as potential suppliers  tried to teach their employees how to counterfeit. [<a href=\"http:\/\/news.sina.com.cn\/h\/2007-07-09\/042113403122.shtml\">Full Text in Chinese<\/a>]\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Photo Quiz answers: Left glass is fake, middle is tap water and right is genuine bottled water. <\/em>[Source: Sina.com]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing is facing a second sort of water crisis, not as deadly as its dwindling ground water supplies but disturbing nonetheless. Translated from Beijing Times via sina.com (Photo Quiz: Which is water is bottled, from the tap, and fake? 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