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Home / Newsletter / March 2006 / |
| The Water Connoisseur | March 2006
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| Via Natural
The award-winning very low mineral content water comes in a stunning PET bottle, which is not out of place at a table in an epicurean setting. The spring is in an unspoiled area in the town of Sandovalina in the western part of the state of San Paulo approximately 375 miles from the capital. |
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| Could it be that there are two different kinds of bottled water?
As you can imagine we get a lot of email here at FineWaters from around the world. About 98% of the emails falls into the category of information requests, general enquiries and encouragements for our mission. And then there are the other 2% of email. Many of them are hostile, accusing us of promoting and prolonging the bottled water fraud. The tenor of the mail is “why should I pay for bottled water if it’s just tap water”. I just dismissed those email for the longest time until I was asking myself: Could it be that there are two different kinds of bottled water? |
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| Bottled Water - Pouring Resources Down the Drain
The global consumption of bottled water reached 154 billion liters (41 billion gallons) in 2004, up 57 percent from the 98 billion liters consumed five years earlier. Even in areas where tap water is safe to drink, demand for bottled water is increasing—producing unnecessary garbage and consuming vast quantities of energy. |
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| Junk Science & Water Quackery: Anti-bird flu Water
A sure sign of the size of the bottled water industry is the amount of emerging junk science and water quackery connected with bottled water. We feel therefore it is time to start a series of articles dealing with the phenomena of water quackery. Here is the first installment in the series: Anti-bird flu Water |
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| Fastest growth of bottled water sales is in India
According to the study, the US is the world's largest consumer of bottled water and Italians drink the most per person. But the fastest growth is coming in developing countries, with consumption tripling in India and more than doubling in China over the past five years, according to the report. |
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