The first chapter of Elizabeth Royte's Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It, the June 15 review by Lisa Margonelli, and the Michiko Kakutani review from the other day.
Goes along with something I was reading yesterday or the day before in the Economist about water pollution in India: Up to their necks in it.
Then of course there's Hurricane Dolly.
FoxNews has funny wording in their take on the bottle wars, lest we be surprised. - "There was a time when brands like Evian and Perrier conjured up images of purity and luxury. That was before bottlers everwhere got their feet wet, and drinking bottled water became a very easy and healthy way to stay hydrated and refreshed." Um. What?
This deserves a moment's pause - but only a moment. Do we see how the "images of purity and luxury" are very highly valued in the first sentence? But then! something came along to interfere with our pure and luxurious (elitist) water... What was it? Oh! this great, "very easy and healthy way to stay hydrated and refreshed"! Um. It also calls "phasing out water bottles" - "thanks to the growing green movement" - "the latest fad." Interesting. Moving on.
This woman killed her kid with water, ew.
And in a perhaps cheerier light, have you seen the Waterfalls in NYC? (You should.) The pictures of other waterfalls in New York State at the bottom of the page make me want to travel, but that will have to wait.
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