It is frankly just a silly product which I believe was dreamed up by a marketing genius and should be highly taxed as an environmental disaster. We act like we are concerned about global warming and yet we waste resources to import a product that adds nothing except to our landfills. I refuse to drink it unless nothing else is available or I am in a third world country. If you have to drink bottled water (and there is very little reason for it, other than in a third world country), one should drink local bottled water.

We are obsessed with drinking water in fancy bottles when people in third world countries are dying from lack of potable water, as “[u]nsafe water and lack of basic sanitation cause 80% of all sickness and disease, and kill more people every year than all forms of violence, including war.” We really should be ashamed. Instead of spending money on bottled water, we should make donations to charities like charity: water.

Also, bottled water does not have fluoride which prevents tooth decay. So kids who grow up in wealthy families drinking the stuff will likely spend lots of time in the dentist’s chair when they get older.