Mon Apr  8 1996

JOINT VENTURE TO BOTTLE BAIKAL WATER.

Korea, Japan, Germany and the Arab Emirates are in line to receive 
water from Lake Baikal. Baikal water will be bottled at an experimental 
factory owned by a Russian-British joint venture, in which the Russian 
partner is the "Baikal Association for Tourism and Recreation." The 
bottling equipment is purchased in Sweden from "Tetra-pak".

During the first stage of the project, it is planned to bottle 20-25 tons a shift
(20 million tons annually) in paper packs that hold one litre of water. 
After mastering the market, the annual volume will be raised to 100 million tons, 
and plastic bottles of different sizes and forms will be used. Water will be brought
through a pipeline from a depth of 450 metres. The pipeline will begin operation
in the summer of this year.  

-- Our information