Why bottled Bling H2O is an eco low


	Why bottled Bling H2O is an eco low

disenchantedcitizen

3-22-2009 9:43 AM

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disenchantedcitizen says:

As the author says "Wrong on so many levels".

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2014b6dd-5024-4a08-a7c7-d947dd11d634/36CCC3E6-2086-4F4F-9C0F-FBD5A510AB37/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2009/mar/20/bling-h2o-bottled-water" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2009/mar/20/bling-h2o-bottled-water" style="font-size: 11px;">www.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2009/mar/20/bling-h2o-bottled-water"><P class="stand-first-alone" id="stand-first">Still requested by celebs and jet-set hollow-heads, the world's most expensive bottled water is an eco outrage, so it's time to name and shame it and other similar products</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2009/mar/20/bling-h2o-bottled-water"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.guardian.co.uk/img/16D573E8-F510-4D7D-BB43-E85A90BF6909" alt="Front page of Blingh2o the most expensive bottled water." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2009/mar/20/bling-h2o-bottled-water"><P>Anyone putting together a time capsule in 2006 need have looked no further than a bottle of <A href="http://www.blingh2o.com/" linkindex="29">Bling H2O</A> as the most apt representation of that year. The world's most expensive bottle of <A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/water" linkindex="30">water</A> was, literally, the high watermark of the kind of conspicuous consumption that prevailed before the credit that allowed such lavish spending was mercilessly crunched a year later.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2009/mar/20/bling-h2o-bottled-water">At $55 a bottle, Bling H2O was wrong on so many levels. It was hype personified: <A href="http://www.mobilewhack.com/reviews/bling_h2o_for_nuts_and_pariss_dog.html" linkindex="31">Paris Hilton</A> was said to let her dog drink it and yet a <A href="http://www.examiner.ie/story/ireland/qlkfausnkf/rss2/" linkindex="32">blind taste test</A> revealed it was indistinguishable from tap water</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2009/mar/20/bling-h2o-bottled-water">It was environmental madness: water shipped from a spring in Tennessee to Hollywood, London, Tokyo and other "style centres of the world" to be enjoyed by jet-set hollow-heads.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/36CCC3E6-2086-4F4F-9C0F-FBD5A510AB37/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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