So Depot convinced Rheem, a division of Japan's Paloma Industries and the biggest water-heater maker, to slap GE's name on a line of water heaters.
France's Danone (nyse: DA - news - people), a bottled water and yogurt maker, flirted with acquiring Quaker, but it too pulled back.
He then took a job as head of factory automation for nearby ASC Industries, maker of automobile water pumps and one of his old customers.
Grameen Danone Foods, a yogurt-maker, and Grameen-Veolia, a water company, are joint ventures with French giants.
This Ohio company, founded as a wooden barrel maker, makes steel drums, corrugated boxes, water bottles, rain barrels and basically every type of packaging you could think of.
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Managing director and Belu co-founder Reed Paget, a former documentary maker, told CNN the idea behind the business was to use water to create water in areas where it was not widely available.
The pioneer in bringing peace of mind to family or neighbours is Zojirushi, Japan's biggest maker of rice cookers and electric kettles, which in Japan keep water hot all day for tea or miso soup.
The Macallan Distillers, in partnership with crystal-maker Lalique, have created this one-of-a-kind bottle to benefit charity: water.
In January, Scottevest, the travel-clothing maker, began touting some of its existing multi-pocketed travel vests that can hold magazines, water bottles and a myriad of gadgets as iPad compatible.
PepsiCo, the No. 2 soda maker, gets 64 percent of its volume from soft drinks and only 7 percent from its Aquafina bottled water.
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