In just under ten years Mahalo water has become one of the most expensive bottled waters on the planet, selling in Japan for ten times the price of oil. The Foods that Make Billions: Liquid Gold, BBC 2011
In just forty years bottled water has become one of the biggest success stories in the food and drink industry. ibid.
The bottled water phenomenon began with one brand ... Perrier. ibid.
In 1989 the Conservative government sold Britain’s water supply to private Utility companies. ibid.
On 10th February 1990 news came through that there was a little problem. But Perrier’s problem was not containable. Benzine is carcinogenic. ibid.
They [Pepsi] targeted Aquafina at the American consumer. ibid.
Coca-Cola ... then launched their water brand – they called it Dasani ... Using local water sources ... it was Thames tap water. ibid.
This is a market that’s continuing to grow beyond all expectations. ibid.
Coca-Cola is recalling its entire range of half a million bottles of Dasani bottled water from the British market. The move comes after levels of the chemical Bromide were found to exceed legal levels. BBC News
It’s a tiny little miracle of the global economy – you can get a bottle of Evian in a little store in Kentucky. And so you have to believe that water from France is somehow better than the water they’ve already got to think that’s justified. Charles Fishman, author The Big Thirst
Bottled water is the most revealing substance for showing us how the global capitalist market works today. Professor Richard Wilk, Indiana University
Bottled water has a water footprint as well as a carbon footprint. On average it takes three litres of water to make every one litre of water that goes on the shelf. Elizabeth Royte, author Bottlemania
I think that’s frankly a testament to the incredibility of commercial industry to sell us anything. Dr Peter Gleick, Author Bottled and Sold
Already competition for water is stirring up strife around the world. Doomsday, 2010
What are these Epicurean experts tasting so earnestly? Vintage white wines? Fine Russian vodkas? Nope. They are putting their professional tastebuds to work analysing the finer points of bottled water. Seem crazy? Last year alone Americans spent over four billion dollars on bottled water. Penn & Teller, Bullshit! s1e7: Feng Shui & Bottled Water, Showtime 2013
The NRDC conducted a comprehensive four-year scientific study of one thousand brands of bottled water. Incredibly, results showed that one third of the bottled waters violated their own industry standards for bottled waters. ibid.
A thousand times the price of tap water for that shit. ibid.
75% of the people who took our tests picked New York tap water over bottled water. ibid.
Many people in the public are persuaded incorrectly that it’s a lot safer and it’s a lot cleaner than tap water. Eric Olson, drinking water expert with the Natural Resource Defense Council
According to this theory all the water in the oceans, rivers and lakes on the planet arrived on board comets. Extreme Universe: Edge of Space, National Geographic 2010
Water pressure is the reason why we have more detailed maps of the Moon and of Mars than of the deep ocean. ibid.
Technology requires dry land. And it’s quite likely that the precise amount of water that the Earth just happens to have allowed a technological species like we Homo sapiens to spring forth. Professor Geoff Macy, interview How the Universe Works: Planets
I’m on my way to Sunderland to look at a great pumping station that was built to cater for the ever increasing demand for more water. With the invention of the steam engine far more water was needed than ever before to run the engines and equip Britain’s industries. This is Ryhope Pumping Station. Fred Dibnah’s Made in Britain e5: Water and Boilers, BBC 2005
Boiler-making were one of Britain’s most important industries. They even had their own boiler-makers’ union. ibid.
If fear could be invoked to sell us flavoured water, anything seemed possible. Jacques Peretti, The Men Who Made Us Spend II, BBC 2014
Fish fuck in it. W C Fields, on being asked why he never drank water
Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel. Genesis 49:4
And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?
And Moses cried unto the Lord, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go.
Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. Exodus 17:3-6
And in those days shall punishment come from the Lord of Spirits, and he will open all the chambers of waters which are above the heavens, and of the fountains which are beneath the earth.
And all the waters shall be joined with the waters: that which is above the heavens is the masculine,
and the water which is beneath the earth is the feminine. And they shall destroy all who dwell
on the earth and those who dwell under the ends of the heaven. And when they have recognized their unrighteousness which they have wrought on the earth, then by these shall they perish. Enoch 2:54:7-10
Here are many dangers upon the waters, and more especially hereafter; for I, the Lord, have decreed in mine anger many destructions upon the waters; yea, and especially upon these waters. Nevertheless, all flesh is in mine hand, and he that is faithful among you shall not perish by the waters ... Behold, I, the Lord, in the beginning blessed the waters; but in the last days, by the mouth of my servant John, I cursed the waters. Wherefore, the days will come that no flesh shall be safe upon the waters. And it shall be said in days to come that none is able to go up to the land of Zion upon the waters, but he that is upright in heart. And, as I, the Lord, in the beginning cursed the land, even so in the last days have I blessed it, in its time, for the use of my saints, that they may partake the fatness thereof. And now I give unto you a commandment that what I say unto one I say unto all, that you shall forewarn your brethren concerning these waters, that they come not in journeying upon them, lest their faith fail and they are caught in snares; I, the Lord, have decreed, and the destroyer rideth upon the face thereof, and I revoke not the decree. I, the Lord, was angry with you yesterday, but today mine anger is turned away. Mormon Doctrine and Covenants 61:4-6 & 14-20
Jack and Jill went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water. Mother Goose’s Melody c.1765
Water is the driving force of all nature. Leonardo da Vinci
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it. Lao Tzu
Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water. Ovid, Epistolæ Ex Ponto II 7 39
Till taught by pain,
Men really know not what good water’s worth;
If you had been in Turkey or in Spain,
Or with a famish’d boat’s-crew had your berth,
Or in the desert heard the camel’s bell,
You'd wish yourself where Truth is – in a well. Lord Byron, Don Juan II:84
The rising world of waters dark and deep. John Milton, Paradise Lost III 11
And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters. William Wordsworth, After the Storm
The liquid that emerges from the millions of [Chilean] faucets in the homes and alleys of Santiago have levels of copper, iron, magnesium and lead which exceed by many times the maximum possible norms. Apsi journal, cited Chomsky
The two major Israeli political groupings (Labor and Likud), with unfailing US support, agree that Palestinians cannot be permitted to control their own land and resources, as they would under meaningful autonomy. Israel relies heavily on West Bank water; control over water has also been a major factor in conflict over the Golan Heights and southern Lebanon. Noam Chomsky, Deterring Democracy
George knelt beside the pool and drank from his hand with quick scoops. ‘Tastes all right,’ he admitted. ‘Don’t really seem to be running, though. You never oughta drink water when it ain’t running, Lennie,’ he said hopelessly. ‘You’d drink out of a gutter if you was thirsty.’ He threw a scoop of water into his face, rubbed it about with a hand, under his chin and around the back of his neck. John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
Roman engineers kept the water moving through hills and valleys maintaining a steady gradient of less than one per cent. An astounding feat … uphill: the inverted syphon. Ancient Impossible: Moving Mountains s1e1, H2 2016
The Romans brought their superior engineering skills to bear. When Rome Ruled Egypt, 2008
To ensure a constant water supply they had to dig deep. ibid.
The truth is fluoride is a poison and adding it to our drinking water is an evolving social experiment started forty years ago. The Great Culling: Our Water, news, 2012
Georgia Guidestones: This American Stonehenge was erected some time in the late 70s … ten commandments for a new age of reason … How do you suppose they plan on eliminating 90% of the population? ibid.
Our food, our air and our water are all under attack, and the most disturbing thing is, it’s all by design. ibid.
What is labelled Fluoride is not naturally occurring Fluoride … over a hundred different chemicals … dumped into the water supply. ibid. Mike Adams, Natural Health
San Diego has a long history of fighting fluoride. ibid.
The fluoride that is being put in the water now … it’s a mineral that’s coming from the phosphate fertilizer industry. It’s a bi-product that is very toxic waste. ibid. Dr Charles Goetschel, organic chemist
If you touch it, it kills you. ibid.
It’s a fraud; a scam from the get-go. ibid.
We have in America today all the symptoms of hyper-thyroidism. ibid.
But they sell it in the grocery store as ‘baby’s first water’; I’ve seen that for years. ibid. Mary E Moore, activist
A crime against humanity. ibid. Dr Kennedy