The premier Aussie sporting event has come under fire for distributing Chinese bottled water, and attendees aren’t pleased.
In the scorching heat, fans have little to no choice but to purchase the product to quench their thirst.
After only two days of tennis at the Australian Open, fans have already taken to social media to air their grievances.
Rather than opting for an Australian brand, organisers selected Ganten bottled water, which has been shipped from the Chinese city Shenzhen, A Current Affair reports.
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It’s no secret that China is not known for their pure spring water.
It’s a country suffering from pollution and half their population has little to no access to clean and safe drinking water.
The consensus at the Aussie Open is that this is an unpatriotic and profit making scheme that isn’t in the real spirit of the tournament.
It is a truly global event.
“Ganten water is a premium brand that is associated with other major tennis and sporting events, including Juventus FC,” the statement said.

At Thursday’s town board meeting, those who spoke were sympathetic of the circumstances that led to the water supply problem, but still indicated being without water for so long was more than an inconvenience.
“It’s been a nightmare outage,” said Mike Hyde.
“Thanksgiving of 2016 went past an inconvenience.
This was a hardship.
It was worse on people with health problems.” Marcanne LaFrance, who lives on Hy Vu Drive, said she was actually relieved to learn it was a town water problem rather than frozen pipes or another issue in her home.
Town Manager Jason Burrell said the town was in contact with Evergreen officials throughout the shortage.
While the plant typically uses 1.1 million gallons a day, during the cold spell that caused pipes to break and spigots to remain running, the mill’s usage increased by up to 400,000 gallons a day.
The reservoir reached 2 feet about 2 a.m. Wednesday, Hodge explained after the meeting, but it took time to prime the pumps and get them started.
Also, there were other leaks across town crews had to attend to first, which partly ensured the level wouldn’t drop again.
Going forward

GREENVILLE – A water main break and an “overburdened’’ treatment plant were blamed for Greenville Water Authority issuing a boil water notice that will remain in effect until at least Tuesday.
“We always err on the side of caution,’’ said Carol Paul, the utility’s manager, in a Sunday evening phone interview.
As a result, a painstaking hunt for the ruptured pipe was conducted by utility employees using listening devices on fire hydrants, Paul said.
Evidently, it was near the river, and the water was going into the river,’’ she said of the ruptured pipe.
As a result, she said it overburdened the treatment plant.
Water testing is now ongoing at the plant, and the authority is required to show DEP the water is problem-free for two consecutive days.
“It takes 24 hours to get the results of each test, so the earliest we can pull the boil notice is Tuesday,’’ Paul said.
“We got a large bottled water supply in, and we’ll be getting another shipment tomorrow,’’ Lombardo said on Sunday.
“We also got prepackaged ice for consuming.’’ State health officials said the water was safe for washing hands, she said.
“We’re boiling everything,’’ said Christy Brooks, co-owner of the restaurant.

LAHORE: The Pakistan Standards and Quality Control Authority (PSQCA) sealed 222 bottled drinking water brands for selling substandard water and working illegally, without having Pakistan Standard License, during last 18 months.
According to a report issued by PSQCA secretariat, as many as 753 water brands were identified in markets of the country and samples of many of companies failed, over which the PSQCA sealed some 222 brands on the spot.
On special directions of Federal Minister for Science and Technology Rana Tanveer Hussain, PSQCA formed a task force to eradicate fake and illegal brands from the market, which started inspection in July 2016 and found a large number of brands were illegal, working without having Pakistan Standard (PS) mark in the country.
During market surveillance activities, it was observed that 222 brands of bottled drinking water brands (out of 753) were being operated illegally/without PSQCA License in the country and all were seized as per provisions of PSQCA Act1996 and Conformity Assessment Rules 2011.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 15th, 2018.

Residents received the advisory by way of an automated phone system and notices posted throughout the borough and on the borough website.
The problem, which has cropped up before, appears to have been precipitated by Friday’s rainstorm and freakishly warm temperatures for early January that rose into the low 60s.
The large amount of rainfall, coupled with the rapid snow melt, is believed to have stirred up organic matter and sediments at the bottom of the settling pond that connects to the borough’s water treatment plant.
Currently, water from Lake Rutherford, which supplies the treatment plant, flows naturally through the settling pond on its way to the plant.
"We do our own laboratory tests and currently the water that’s flowing out of (the settling pond) is well within the accepted parameters, but the DEP decides how long they want you to test, and usually it’s two rounds over a day or two," Holowach said.
With Monday being a holiday, "I would think we’re probably looking at Thursday or Friday before the advisory gets lifted."
Residents, he said, will be notified accordingly in the same manner as they were when the advisory was first issued.
Until then, residents are advised to bring all drinking water to a boil, let it continue to boil for one minute, and then let it cool before using it — or else use bottled water.
Boiling the water in this manner kills bacteria and other organisms that may be in the water.
In an effort to address the turbidity problem, the borough applied for and was approved last year for a $400,000 state grant that it intends to use toward the construction of a new pipeline directly from Lake Rutherford to the water treatment plant, thus bypassing the settling pond entirely.

INEZ, Ky. (AP) — An eastern Kentucky county is conserving water by shutting it off to residents at night, but some have been without running water for days.
About 1,000 people in Martin County were without water for a fifth day on Friday, The Lexington Herald-Leader reported .
The water district began shutting off water to many customers at night on Monday.
Kathy Jude, who lives in Martin County, told the newspaper her husband’s grandfather has been without running water since Monday.
She says she has had to use bottled water to bath him.
The water district said in a statement Friday that the main cause of the shortage is a decrease in customers, meaning less revenue for repairs of the failing infrastructure.
The district is losing about 50 percent of the water it produces "through pipe breaks, service line leaks and failing meters."
"The financial condition is so serious, the Martin County Water District could fail, and we would not just lose water for days, but for an extended period of time," the officials said.
During a recent emergency meeting over the water issues, a frustrated resident was led away by a police officer as he was criticizing the district’s response.
"All I want is for the people of Martin County to have water," the man, Gary Michael Hunt, told the Herald-Leader.

CALAMUS — A boil advisory has been issued for the town of Calamus in Clinton County after a water main break that occurred today.
The water main break drained the water tower and has caused a loss in pressure, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources states in a press release issued shortly after 1 p.m. today.
A loss of pressure can allow bacteria to enter the water distribution system.
The approximately 400 residents in the Eastern Iowa town are encouraged to bring all water used for drinking, making ice, brushing teeth or preparing food to a boil, let it boil for one minute and let it cool before using or to use bottled water.
Boiling kills bacteria and other organisms in the water.
Tap water can be used for bathing and similar purposes.
The town will collect and test four sets of water samples, taken 24 hours apart, to determine when the water is safe and the advisory can be lifted.
For more information, call the EPA Safe Drinking Water Hotline at 1-800-426-4791 for general guidelines on ways to reduce risks of infection.

Hotels and restaurants in Varkala, in an effort to reduce plastic waste, have decided to do away with bottled water.
Thiruvananthapuram: Hotels and restaurants in Varkala, in an effort to reduce plastic waste, have decided to do away with bottled water.
Instead they plan to serve purified water in glass tumblers.
As part of ‘Zero Waste Beacon Varkala Municipality’ project, Varkala Tourism Development Association, which has 122 resorts as members, has promised to look into greener choices.
They decided to support the initiative because of the huge amount of plastic waste generated, according to VTDA Joint Secretary Lenin Kumar.
Of the 60 or so restaurants along the cliff, there are at least 40 such restaurants.
We have conducted at least three beach cleanups over the past few years, only to see plastic piling up again.
However, the association is aware that there could be challenges while implementing the decision.
Tourists most often prefer bottled water, as they perceive it to be a safer option.
Not just restaurants and five star hotels, but even homestays will have to be convinced about not using bottled water.

The water supply in the city of Parsons is not affected.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) issued a boil water advisory for Public Wholesale Water Supply District No.
23, which includes a number of public water supplies, including Neosho County Rural Water District No.
KDHE officials issued the advisory because of high turbidity.
Rural Water District No.
The advisory will remain for the other districts and communities until flushing and testing can be done on their systems, which could take three to five days, a KDHE spokesman said Saturday.
Other districts impacted are Wilson Co. RWD No.
5, Neosho Co. RWD No.
Other cities included are Altoona, Buffalo, Fall River, Fredonia and the Coal Hollow Water Co. Customers should observe the following precautions in the districts and communities until further notice: — Boil water for one minute prior to drinking or food preparation, or use bottled water.
— Water used for bathing does not generally need to be boiled.

But in some Eastern Kentucky counties, authorities are begging people not to do that because of serious water shortages that have left many people with no water at all.
Perry County and Clay County have also had residents going without water.
Customers of the Manchester Water Department in Clay County have been experiencing water problems for more than a week.
Debbie Bowling, of Oneida in Clay County, said Saturday marked a week that her home had not had water.
Jackson said about 1,500 Clay County residents have had water shortages over the past week because of broken water lines and a drain on the county water supply as many residents kept water flowing in their homes to prevent frozen pipes.
“We’re in much better shape,” Jackson said Saturday afternoon.
As water was being restored to more and more residents, the water department asked that people continue to conserve water so holding tanks could fill.
Jackson said local government has distributed bottled water to many residents during the shortages.
If you have had freeze-ups before, and if you feel it is absolutely necessary to prevent freezing of pipes, you should reduce the flow from a single faucet to a slow continuous drip, but only during periods when water is not otherwise being used in the household.” City engineer Hank Spaulding explained in the post that “when a significant number of the 9,000 customers run faucets continuously, even at low flow levels, the resulting extra demand quickly exceeds the water plant’s excess capacity and rapidly depletes the system’s storage capacity causing outages.” Joe Tapio, who works for the city’s water distribution system, said Saturday that the situation is improving, but with a cold front on the way, that could change.
“We are starting to supply people,” he said.