![]() ![]() The Inland Ice brand, also distributed in gourmet restaurants, promises water that has "the purity of prehistory" and the "taste of a hundred thousand years." Mr. He sells them for up to 12 euros each in China, the Gulf States, the United States and Denmark. ![]() And not just any bottles: the same ones as Bordeaux wines, to justify their prices. "So why not drink it?" The Swedish entrepreneur decided to bottle them. "Icebergs contain water so pure that it's a shame to see it go to waste into the salty sea," said Thomas Vildersboll. Since then, tourists have started coming in crowds, by boat, to admire this vestige of the at sunset. "The oldest ice dates back to 250,000 years, and it provides us detailed information on climatic changes and the atmospheric conditions of the past," United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) said in 2004, while classifying it as a World Heritage Site. In the southwest of the country, the clock is ticking for the majestic frozen fjord of Ilulissat. As journalist Robert Guillain wrote in 1952 in a column for Le Monde, "the Greenland revolution is first and foremost that of the thermometer." With temperatures increasing three times faster in Greenland than elsewhere, the country is melting fast. The ice cap has lost 4.7 million billion liters of water since 2002. The figure is so astronomical that it is difficult to pronounce: 4,700,000,000,000,000. In Greenland, the rush to bottle iceberg water By Julien Bouissou Published on Jat 14h46, updated at 20h24 on July 30, 2022įeatureAs the island seeks to gain financial independence from Denmark, it now allows the exploitation of its icebergs like any other mining resource. ![]()
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