Bottled water, the world’s fastest growing beverage, carries a heavy environmental cost, adding plastic to landfills and putting pressure on natural springs, the author of a new US report says.
“Bottled water is really expensive, in terms of environmental costs and economically,” said Ling Li, who wrote the report for the Washington-based Worldwatch Institute.
While many in developed countries thirst for safety, cleanliness, taste and social cachet when they buy bottled water, more than one billion of the world’s poorest lack access to clean drinking water, bottled or not.(Source)
It is hardly surprising that it is the inner urban lefties who have so taken to buying and drinking bottled water. I just wonder how they reconcile the obvious environmental consequences of drinking bottled water with their support for things such as “global warming” and their claims to “Green Virtue”.
Me? I drink rainwater collected from my own roof and I would never pay for bottled water, unless I lived in Adelaide where the tap water will curdle the milk in your tea. 
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…inner urban lefties who have so taken to buying and drinking bottled water
How do you rationalise this? I despise the concept of bottled water when clean tap-water is available. I don’t think this trait in particular is characteristic of the left.
Well, the problem with a lot of the trendy inner suburb green-lefty sorts is that they combine a healthy dose of alternative lifestyle hypocrisy with their mystical link to nature.
But then, such people are almost as tiresome to me as cyclists (although many of them are cyclists – of the worst possible sorts).
How do you rationalise this?
WHAT!?!!! Do you think Iain actually researches his peices??? Do you think he even knows what he’s talking about when he puts forehead to keyboard???
I expect the amount of evidence Iain has to back up his ‘inner urban lefties’ spiel to be precisely…zero. As usual.
Rgrds,
PKD
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Do you drink Bottled water PKD?
I bet you do.
I base my assertion on personal observation and things like footage of various protests where strangely you will see a surprising number of the usual suspects carrying a placard in one hand and bottled water in the other.