HOW CAN WATER CAPTURE IN VODKA SAVE SEA LEVEL IF PEOPLE KEEP STEALING THE WATER?
BBC A Canadian vodka distiller has lost 30,000 litres of valuable iceberg water in what appears to be a heist. Iceberg Vodka CEO David Meyers says he is mystified as to who - or why - someone would have stolen the water. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police say someone made away with the liquid - enough to fill a tractor-trailer tanker - from a warehouse in the historic community of Port Union, Newfoundland. The water is valued at between C$9,000 ($6,775; £5,200) and C$12,000. The CEO of the Newfoundland-based distiller told the BBC that the water was discovered missing on Monday after their facility manager found one of the tanks had been completely drained over the weekend. Mr Meyers said it would have taken "a bit of work" to have been able to access the tank and remove the water, which was secured behind a locked gate and door. The water is insured but the company is only able to harvest it in the spring from the ice giants that appear annually on Newfoundland and Labrador's coast along the famed "iceberg alley". "We only have one crack at doing an iceberg harvest a year," he said. "It's just like a grape harvest for the wine industry." |
