I know where this water comes from and it is probably the closest to truth in advertising you will even get. The bottling plant really is at the base of Mt. Whitney near Olanchia CA.
Posted on 12/03/2008 8:06:57 PM PST by neverdem
Bottled water sales are exploding! According to the Beverage Marketing Corporation the wholesale value of bottled water sold in the United States during 2006 was about $10.99 billion - a 60% increase over what was sold during 2001.
Some Bottled Water History
The economic value of "special water" was first cultivated in Europe during the late 1700s when people began visiting natural springs to drink the water or bathe in it. Then in 1767, Jackson's spa in Boston began bottling their water. This increased their income and shared the water with people over a broad area.
In the early days of the water industry, "mineral water" and "spring water" were the most popular types of bottled water. Many people believed that "mineral water" had a medicinal effect and that "spring water" had a special purity because it had just emerged from the ground and had not been used. The industry began with these perceived benefits of bottled water and perception remains a driving factor for sales...
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Read post 16, same premise they used on the show. The bottles were fancy and had very attractive packaging but the water was all from a garden hose from the spicket on the outside of the building.
Hahahahaaa ... I'm reminded of that Honeymooner's episode where Ralph and Norton are threatening their wives with "The boys are gonna do some drinking!", whereby the wife surreptitiously drains the bottle of wine and refills it with grape juice. Well, Ralph and Norton, drinking the stuff, are flying high ... slurring their words and behaving like drunks ... until Alice (the wife) tells them that they have just drank a full quart of GRAPE JUICE! /laughs
Classic Honeymooner's episode :)
aqua minerale naturale, non frizzante?
Fiji is my water of choice when I go for gourmet water mostly because I like the cool square bottle.
hehe.
There is a small bottling company in Seattle that sends a truck up once a day or so to the town of Concrete, Washington. They hook up to a town hydrant and fill up the tanker - then off to the bottling company! They were trying to get more water from the town but the town is worried about the demand on their small system.
I was recently in a hotel room in Minneapolis where they wanted four dollars for a sixteen ounce bottle of water. Anyone who pays that much is either a billionaire or a fool. Or both. I drank the tap water.
My Girl Scout troop did an experiment with bottled water a couple of meetings ago. We tasted six different kinds of bottled water, chosen largely at random off the Food Lion shelf (based on what was sold in a single bottle instead of a six-pack), and each girl rated each kind 1 to 5. Somewhere in there, we tried the water from the sink in the building where we meet. All nine girls and I liked the tap water best.
On another subject:Over the years, I've stored 5 billion images
Nice uggs you have there, Joe.
I visited a company called Aqua Chem in Knoxville Tennnessee. They are a leading manufacturer of desalinization units used to make drinking water from salt water. Their units are used on US Navy and other ships every where.
They have a process of vacuum distillation that distills the water at low temperature under partial vacuum.
They have a big new market...... water bottlers. They run city water through the machine, put in in bottles and sell it for more than the price of gasoline.
The U S Congress is mulling a similar process where they will be taxing the air
The only time I use bottled water is when there is no tap water available. I refill plastic bottles at home with our tap water. I mark my bottles with a black R (for refill) on the lids.
Several visiting relatives drank those and commented how much better it tasted than other bottled water. I almost didn't want to tell them it was our tap water, but I did. They were surprised to say the least.
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