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The world is running out of fresh drinking water, including America. Bottled waters' growth rate has been growing and it is now second only to soda water in being the largest selling beverage. But even though it is a lucrative field, there are few places where fresh clean water can be found in quantity and because of this it is a market that is hard to penetrate. In the Shenandoah Valley, rain water perculates downward through uncontaminated sedimentary rock and in the process it picks up healthy minerals. It then comes up as a spring that was revered by the native Indians for the healing properties of its water. The early settlers of the area heard about it from the Indians and in 1741 King George II of England granted 800 acres of the "Good Health Spring" to John Seawright. Since its discovery in the 1700's it has been flowning at a rate of 1 million to 1.5 million gallons a day or 350 to 550 million gallons a year. Seawright Holdings, SWRI, bought 145 acres of land at the mouth of the spring in 2003 for one million dollars and has been building facilities to bottle the water and arranging to distribute it. They have now reached the point where they are ready start selling it as bottled water. Whole Foods Market and My Organic Market are going to start selling their 0.5 liter and 1 liter bottles. One reason that these healthy organic based stores are going to sell Seawrights bottled water is because the company dedicated itself to developing a biodegradable bottle in which to sell its pristine water. Eventually they plan on selling it world wide.

The stock was in the $2 range, but the company has been spending its money developing its facilities, and has had no revenue stream, and so it has been dropping and is now in the .20 range. However, now that it is going to be selling its bottled water, plus selling its excess water to other bottlers, it should start making money, which will increase over time, and so its stock price should start rising.

Seawright Springs, http://www.seawrightsprings.com/ located in the Shenadoah Valley of Virginia produces very high quality bottled naural spring water. Bottling capability includes all popular sizes 1/2 liter up to 5 gallon bottles for coolers. Seawright also offers its water in bulk in 6000 gallon tanker loads or 6000 gallon flexitanks for shipment by rail or shipboard container. Seawright maintains a sizable inventory at all times for world wide response to disaster relieve efforts. Seawright Springs company is arranging long term contracts to ship its excess water to other bottled water companies to be used in their bottled water and will be able to ship its spring water to these companies via its 6000 gallon containers. As the long term contracts are signed by the manufacturers, Seawright Springs will have a revenue stream that will grow over time and it will be almost all profit. But in addition to this revenue stream, Seawright Springs will also be selling its own bottled water. And since the bottled water will be sold in chain stores known for being environmentally friendly, the fact that Seawright Springs uses biodegradeable bottles, and the other brands don't, will give Seawright Springs a selling advantage over the other brands sold by the stores.

Because Seawright has excess capacity from the more than 300 million gallons per year of natural spring water produced at its property in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, rather than let this water be wasted as runoff, the company can get a major extra revenue stream by selling it to existing, high volume bottled spring water manufacturers who would benefit from Seawright's strategic location in order to produce and distribute their brands more cost effectively in the Mid-Atlantic market. Seawright expects to provide spring water to these manufacturers under long term supply contracts.

Seawright completed several construction projects and equipment upgrades at its 144 acre property in preparation for business strategy. The volume of water produced by Seawright Springs would yield approximately 70 million cases of bottled water per year, translating to 1.6 billion 16.9 ounce bottles. The bottled water industry is a high growth, $14 billion market, with a significant portion located on the East Coast of the U.S. in close proximity to Seawright Springs.

Joel Sens, CEO of Seawright Holdings, said that "environmentally protected sources of high volume, high quality natural spring water in close proximity to major markets are extremely rare and valuable." He stressed that "as fuel prices climb and producers become more environmentally conscious, the transportation component has a much larger impact on price sensitive commodities such as bottled spring water. Being in close proximity to major markets has significantly increased the value of our natural spring asset."

Seawright has recently launched its own Seawright Springs brand bottled water in a distinctive package for the retail market. Seawright will continue to produce the "Seawright Springs Premium Natural Spring Water" brand. "We anticipate, however, that the bulk of our revenues will come from partnership arrangements with major bottlers who will buy the excess water capacity from Seawright Springs," Mr. Sens said.
Seawright is also going to enter the emerging biofuels industry. In the United States, most biodiesel is made from soybean oil or recycled cooking oils. Animals fats, other vegetable oils, and other recycled oils can also be used to produce biodiesel, depending on their costs and availability. In the future, blends of all kinds of fats and oils may be used to produce biodiesel.
The production of biofuels to replace oil and natural gas is in active development. Biofuels can yield high net energy gain. One advantage of biofuel over most other fuel types is that it is biodegradable, and so relatively harmless to the environment if spilled.
Global biofuel production tripled between 2000 and 2007, but still accounts for less than 3 percent of the global transportation fuel supply and so there is a lot of room for growth in the profitable biofuel industry.

While biofuels share similar attributes with oil-based fuel, they are not perfect substitutes. Biofuels can be used in existing gasoline and diesel engines in blends of up to 10 percent in the case of ethanol and 20 percent for biodiesel with little or no engine modification. This compatibility contrasts with hydrogen fuel cell technology, which would require a radically different distribution system.

Ethanol has only two-thirds the energy content of gasoline, but biodiesel has 90 percent that of diesel and this may be increased with fjuture research. Shipping ethanol is more expensive; it cannot be transported by low-cost pipelines because of potential contamination from ethanol’s tendency to absorb water and to dissolve impurities on the inside surfaces of multiproduct pipelines. Dedicated pipelines for ethanol are being considered in Brazil and the United States and may become economical with expanded production, but it will be years before they are built.

Seawright is negotiating to acquire commodity producing assets in the emerging biofuels market. Technological advances in biofuel production have given renewed life to historically underutilized commodities such as waste vegetable oils and animal byproducts for use as renewable automotive and home heating fuels. "This is an exciting and potentially high growth market place and consistent with our strategy to expand our commodity producing asset holdings," Mr. Sens said. Seawright is also in discussions to acquire an interest in a bio-diesel manufacturing plant that will be capable of producing up to 7 million gallons per year of high quality bio-diesel fuel.

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