In the past few days, many netizens have paid tribute to the founder of national-level beverages on social media, and the topic #Wahaha Laboratory Royal Water# has become the first hot search topic.
Perhaps few outsiders know that a small bottle of Wahaha purified water worth 2 yuan is the "hard currency" in many laboratories. Searching on academic search engines, can query thousands of articles containing the keyword "wahaha water".
According to Chao News, pure water, as the most widely used reagent in laboratories, its purity profoundly affects the final production and quality analysis results.
In 2022, during a live broadcast on CCTV, Wahaha staff randomly selected purified water products for testing. The results showed that the conductivity, ph value and other results were all within the standard range of bottled drinking purified water. Among them, is particularly worth mentioning because the conductivity of the test sample is 1.08μs/cm.
"The lower the conductivity of water, the fewer ions and other substances contained in the water, indicating that the water is purer." Teacher Wan, a mass spectrometry experiment technician at Zhejiang University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, explained that the test data results of Wahaha pure water have reached the laboratory water level ( The conductivity of water is ≤5μs/cm), and far exceeds the standard for drinking pure water (the conductivity of water is ≤10μs/cm).
Zong Qinghou once publicly responded to Wahaha pure water becoming laboratory water
In daily scientific research, in addition to water quality assurance, experimental water also needs to consider the issue of "cost-effectiveness". Yu Meilan, a professor and master's tutor at the School of Life Sciences and Medicine at Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, said that in comparison, the preparation of "double-distilled water" is time-consuming and laborious, and using a pure water meter requires consideration of machine cleaning, power consumption, and accessories maintenance. The cost of maintenance, etc. is relatively high. If the usage is not large, it is not cost-effective.
Some news pointed out that from raw water to purified water, it needs to go through dozens of tests. A small bottle of purified water requires more than 30 million yuan in equipment support.
It is worth mentioning that in September 2021, Wahaha officially launched the "Laboratory Water Support Plan", specifically sponsoring laboratories of some universities and major research institutions across the country. provides free pure water for one year of experimental water, and officially announced It says in it, "Support academics and do our best to contribute to the development of scientific research."
data shows that by the end of that year, Wahaha had donated more than 100 tons of pure water to a total of 60 university laboratories.
html On the 26th, Wahaha opened an online condolence channel, and more than 100,000 netizens expressed their condolences to Zong Qinghou online. In this collective memory, more "pure" stories about this entrepreneur and this company emerged.Zong Qinghou once compared the love of charity and public welfare to the "breathing soil" in "The Classic of Mountains and Seas". As long as there is a "tiny grain of breathing soil" spread in the world by the "spring breeze", it can give birth to a pound of grass that can withstand all difficulties. Great strength.
In front of the former headquarters of Wahaha Group in Hangzhou, citizens sent flowers in memory. Image source Xinhua News Agency
Source: China Youth Daily
