The truth about plastic water bottles is you're going to consume microplastics.

Microplastics cause cancer, birth defects. It's known to cause a lot of medical issues. It's not designed to go in our bodies and it's not good. They found it in human blood for the first time in men's testicles, in the brain. How did you end up going from being a guy who loves basketball to now running this company for 25 years, building this multi-million dollar water company? Oh man, now you're touching your heartstrings.

Meet Robert Hawkins, the owner of GoH2O, a veteran-founded hydration and purified water solutions company serving over 20 U.S. States known for innovative, mineralized, and hydrogen-enhanced offerings. PFAs are a huge thing right now. What are that? It's called the forever chemical. It's something they use to put out the fire. It ends up getting into our water sources. It's known to cause cancer. Our company does three things. The first one is we remove the contaminants from the water. The second thing we do is enhance that water. And then after that, reducing single-use plastic waste and helping prevent microplastic consumption. If someone was watching this interview, if they had to take one specific

action, they could do two-day to make a permanent better decision for water. What would it be?

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Hey guys, welcome to this episode of the Passionate View podcast. Today we have an incredible episode as we sit down for a full crash course education on water, something that all of us know, but do we really, with none other than my man Rob and Zach Hawkins from GoH2O. Thank you guys so much for being on the show today. Yes, sir. Thanks for having us. Absolutely. So let's get right into it. Before we get into your backstory, can you guys talk a

little bit for the audience who may know water but may not know about GoH2O, what you guys do in the

water space and what your guys' business is all about? All right, excellent. Yeah, so we

we are a hydration education solution.

And we've evolved to that.

We started off as putting water vending machines

that purify water for drinking,

for people who have better, cleaner drinking water

at an affordable price.

Started that a long time ago.

Then we started manufacturing our own product.

We started doing it a little bit better. And then we realized in the hydration space, there wasn't a lot of education.

People just thought water was water. A lot of people didn't like to taste the water, didn't realize

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