War on Bottled Water Top Trend in Time Magazine: But There’s a Much Deeper Water Issue Here…The Question of Water Markets…And Where OUR Water Comes From (Aquadoc, WaterWired)
(Feb. 18, 2009, Aquadoc, WaterWired)
John Cloud’s TIME article on the Top 10 Food Trends of 2008 lists the war on bottled water as #4:
In 1992’s The Player, Tim Robbins’ character, the consummate Hollywood insider, showed his
sophistication at restaurants through his ability to differentiate among various kinds of bottled water. But today, that same Hollywood macher would never ask for anything but tap. Because of the environmental costs of producing and shipping bottled waters, more and more chefs are offering only filtered tap water to customers. Mario Batali and his business partner Joseph Bastianich stopped selling bottled water at their New York City restaurants Del Posto and Otto earlier this year, and eateries in Florida and Massachusetts are also serving only tap. The U.S. Conference of Mayors voted in June to recommend that City Halls stop serving bottled water even at special functions. Once hip, bottled water is now unforgivably ’90s.
[photo by Photodisc/Getty]Thanks to Elaine Hebard for passing this to me.
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