All Bottled Water is NOT BAD... take a closer look.

The Bottled Water Industry: When It Pours, It ReignsPosted May 20, 2008 12:12 PM (EST) Kerry Trueman writes an article about Elizabeth Royte book titled, Bottlemania. She says, " At a time when there's less water to go around and more people demanding it, Bottlemania makes the case that it's not in our interests to let private multinational corporations float their boats on our nation's water. That's not democracy, it's dam-ocracy, and it could damn us all if we let their unquenchable thirst for profit take precedence over our right to clean, safe, free drinking water."

Her article, speaks of the lack thereof and the dwindling resources of our country, with which I tend to agree. The hottest commodity in the future is water. I think its a respect, or lack thereof respect of our resources, but this is not a new concept for our nation. We are a suck it dry nation of consumerism, taking, taking and taking without any reprocussions, like spoiled children who just hold their hand out for more, not even knowing where more comes from. With all due respect to Kerry Truemen, she's not speaking fairly about the company's that are making a difference with respect to water. As we share, water is the most exquisite elixir of life, which is why company's who educate consumers and are responding in a positive aspect like Give Water or Charity Water or AQUAMANTRA, we are providing an altruistic opportunity to a beverage you most likely will buy from Coke or Pepsi, but we are smaller companies with an intention of improvement and good for the planet.

I would like to remind her that for every person who has positive intentions and good will, they will cancel out 50 negative people. So if we inspire thousands of people with our water, how can that be bad? And how is it also bad making a living off a commodity that people need? It's the oldest profession in the book is it not, to take something and reinvent it to make it available to people? AQUAMANTRA, for example, happens to be an amazing tasting water, people take a sip and are shocked, at how delicious it is. That is because we use quantum physics to make it taste that way. All of these articles about how drinking tap water is better, are false idiology, because tap water is gross! Its like trying to tell me that 2 buck chuck is really just as good for you as a 1984 Cabernet, its simply not true. People buy bottled water because its a healthy beverage, that tastes fabulous. That is not wrong! That is our constitutional choice. We can try and say we are in control, banning people from bringing water to schools and encouraging people to drink tap water, but at the end of the day, the choice is ours. We live in America for a reason, let's not make people bad for drinking a beverage that is good for you, and for letting them choose which one and how much they want tto spend.

In Terry's article, she might be referencing "corporations" which most people do, but before all these editors and authors cast stones on bottled water companies as a whole, I encourage them to do their homework. Some of us are trying to do a good thing, with respect to our environment. And while I agree with some aspects to her article, I do encourage an equal opportunity for water manufacturers, we're not all scoundrels out for the money. Some of us are trying to clean up the mess, using water's beauty and message to make a difference in the world. There's always two sides to every coin. I'm here to be the otherside. Bless you!