What’s the Appeal in Bottled Water?

I stood looking on the shelves of our local grocery store the other day, and there were just rows and rows of bottles of water. There was plain water, enhanced water, herbal water, citrus water, sparkling water, still water, spring water and who knows what all else.

What’s the Appeal in Bottled Water?

Bottled water started as a health fad, with companies purporting that their water was healthier, purer and tastier than any other water. While this may have been true at some stage, seeing that some tap water is not that pure as we were initially led to believe, bottled water turned into a multi-million dollar business that made drinking his Designer Drink “trendy.”

Each of the labels promises that the water in that particular bottle contains a whole hospital worth of “cures” for everything. Many of them claim to have been bottled in regions so far into the wilderness that even polar bears could not access them, let alone humans, so I don’t know so much about the veracity of the claims on the bottles.

Herbally infused, minerally enhanced, carbonated, added vitamins, and various other flavoured and tinged waters have taken over the drinks market. While the water bottling companies are having a laugh all the way to the bank, most of these bottled waters are nothing more than ordinary tap water that could be bottled right in your own hometown, using the same water that comes out of your tap.

Apart from the fact that the manufacture of all these plastic water bottles uses a huge amount of petroleum, most of them also end up in landfills all over the world, so to those who say drinking bottled water is ecologically sound and healthy, I say Bah!

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