Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 19:19:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: British complain bottled water 'not fresh'
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

> Evening Standard
> 9 July 2003
> Bottled mineral water could be almost two years old by the time it is
> bought by consumers, it was revealed today.

Does bottled water become stale?  How?

What's meant by the age of water, anyway?  The time since it was
bottled?  If so, brackish malarial swamp water would count as pefectly
fresh since it's never been bottled.  The time since it fell as rain?
If so, water from melted ice age glaciers would could as very stale.

I could never be a marketer, as it would never occur to me that anyone
who wasn't dying of thirst in the middle of a desert would pay two
dollars for half a liter of water.  (Ref:
http://www.geocities.com/debbiesniderman/water.html)

Perhaps the ultra-squeamish can help finance space exploration.  Much
of the outer solar system consists of ice.  How much would a yuppie
pay for water guaranteed to have *never* been though any creature's
kidneys, bladders, or bowels?
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