Washington Post :
In Tokyo and Paris, you can now spend $5 a glass on special beverages selected by a professional sommelier.
Nothing surprising there, except the beverages being served are different brands of bottled water -- with various "flavors" supposedly matched to different foods.
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Who in their right mind buys "concentrated water"! Thirty-four dollars for 2oz. of water?
I want to be a Water Sommelier. How much do they make?
I understand the ad, but what am I supposed to do with the water once I insert it into my anus with my foot? I'm confused.
Ha! Wouldn't it be easier to go neck first rather than base first?
yes, but how would you pour?
Is anyone besides me getting fed up with some of the pictures being selected / composed for this site?
The one that goes with this article, plus the one with "Sex Every Day" representational wood figures -- these on the heels, so to speak, of a gaudy derriere in our faces most of last week -- yuk! Come on, people.
To your marketing-experts-gone-wild: does Huffpo really need klutzy soft porn to attract nonprogressives to the site?
Well, maybe it will work, and pull in large numbers of the Republican Sexual Obsession crowd and make them vote for "our side." My guess is that such visitors will read the sex glitz, not the thoughtful political discourse.
Unfortunately, so will many teens and kids even younger -- and after the first jolting thrill -- a sinking sadness that their parents and the rest of the "thinking" adult world don't require anything as dramatic as global warming to wipe them out. They are a species already fastened to the coarse, the shallow, and the inappropriate. Way to go, Huffpo, mainstream cheap trash right here on this site.
I'm casting about for another home page; your problem seems to be escalating faster than the price of oil and I hate to think what you might be SHOWING next week.
You're offended by wooden figures in sexual positions? Now that's uptight.
Anywho...
Water is being railroaded by Coca Cola and Pepsi just like public transit was destroyed by Ford, Big Oil, etc. People I work with will only drink bottled water because they've been duped into believing tap water is poison, and who duped them? Who's selling the water.
There's a water crises lurking right around the corner, and while the engineering community and government resource managers are keenly aware of it, most American consumers are largely in the dark.
It has two components - one close to home, the other global - that should be raising alarms. US water resources are under tremendous stress as demands continue to spike, while supplies are nearly all being fully exploited - many are overexploited. For much of the rest of the planet, drinkable water is already a rare commodity, and is likely to become more so.
The outlook is so bad that regional wars and human disasters are part of the intelligence community scenarios. In the US, heated court battles over who owns rivers and lakes are already underway, as record droughts have created acute shortages in states north, south, east and west. Look for more of the same. Some hydrologists predict that reservoirs that supply southwest cities - already at record low levels - may be dry in a couple decades.
Bottled water is a problem for many reasons, not the least being the marketing message, which further discourages communities from facing their future: recycled and cleaned water from waste treatment facilities.
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First Posted: 06-30-08 07:50 AM | Updated: 07- 8-08 05:12 AM