Isklar
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We are now passing by the Isklar water factory at Hovland, which gets its water from the 6000-year-old Folgefonna glacier on the opposite side of the fjord. The water is tapped directly at source a few hundred meters under the glacier and runs in pipes down the mountainside, and out to the 300-metre-deep fjord, in fact right under where we are sailing now. The pipes come up next to the factory you can see on land, and there are piped directly into the bottles. Therefore, the water reaches the consumer without ever having been exposed to the outside world. In Norway we are very lucky to have such good drinking water, and the tap water is both healthy and nearly free. Regardless, Norwegians still buy many millions of litres of bottled water every year. Whatever the reason, there is no doubt that water is healthier than both juice and fizzy drinks.