Message In a Bottle from Fast Company
Okay, I have spared you most of my bizarre politics and social outrages and kept my ranting more or less focused on the workplace. That having been said, though, I have to draw your attention to this article from Fast Company magazine.
Basically it says what I’ve been muttering under my breath for the last couple of years- that this whole bottled water craze makes no sense economically, ecologically or healthwise. Every week my recycling bin (because I have one) is full to the brim with my wife and daughter’s water bottles even though we have some of the safest tap drinking water in the world. And the fact that people will pay for water from Fiji, while 1/3 of the Fijian population doesn’t have a clean well for their own people to drink from is simply an outrage and is just one more reason so much of the rest of the world is shooting at us.
Arise my brothers and sisters…. reduce, reuse, recycle and REFUSE to buy the hype- or the h2o when the tap or fountain works just fine.
I now return you to my usual blather.





July 19th, 2007 at 7:53 am
As a chemist, I have to refer you to http://www.dhmo.org/
July 19th, 2007 at 7:55 am
Ironic: The google ads at the top of this page for me display four different kinds of bottled water. Including Fiji.
July 22nd, 2007 at 9:20 pm
Couldn’t agree with you more, Wayne!! I live in Maine - home to Poland Spring… You know the water that claims that if you drink it you will know “What it means to be from Maine.” Maine is a great place to live - but, sorry, you can’t get that sense from drinking the water!! The marketing of bottled water proves that Madison Avenue can get us to buy anything!!! I keep waiting for them to sell us the Brooklyn Bridge…