Moral Mayhem at Vancouver’s Mini-B...
Moral Mayhem at Vancouver’s Mini-Bars!
Besides the Coca Cola/Dasani concession, where’s the least-likely place we’d expect to find tap water promoted during the Vancouver Olympic frenzy? Hotel mini-bars, you say? Photo via cbc.ca: A stainless steel refillable water bottle is featured prominently in mini-bars in Vancouver Well,...
Tap Water, Now Competing in Vancouver...
Tap Water, Now Competing in Vancouver
Water utilities and municipalities are finally getting hip to the promotional opportunity that big events can present. From little local festivals to the Olympics, events are a perfect place for tap water proponents to strut their stuff. Vancouver is getting in the game despite overwhelming competition...
Bottled Water: Straight to the Heart...
Bottled Water: Straight to the Heart
Those people who don’t speak Thai (or even total illiterates) can clearly understand the benefits of this bottled water, thanks to the extremely simplified illustration. We heart water! Literally and directly! Photo thanks to isriya on Flickr.
Water Hill Grammar Lesson...
Water Hill Grammar Lesson
The week we’ve already shown you that spelling matters and today we bring you Water Hill to demonstrate the importance of grammar. Enjoy bottled water from a brand that touts quality control in the past tense. I believe I’ll pass! Via engrish.com, originally spotted in Koh Samui, Thailand.
Bottled Water, We Really Do Love Ya...
Bottled Water, We Really Do Love Ya
Regular visitors here know that we often get our jollies by ridiculing bottled water. Our barbs, though, are directed at those who regularly use the product though they have easy access to clean, plentiful tap water… you know the type, the clueless, wasteful track-suited, cell-talking types we...
Vittel: It Must Be the Water. And the Bu...
Vittel: It Must Be the Water. And the Budget.
Vittel is a brand of bottled mineral water from the northeastern French spa town of the same name. Sounds quaint, but the brand has since 1992 been owned by the not-so-quaint ginormous multinational Nestlé. That helps to explain why ginormous multinational ad agency Ogilvy and Mather France has produced  these...
Best of 2009: Bottled Water for Pervs...
Best of 2009: Bottled Water for Pervs
Our favorite global water brand discovered in 2009! I dare you to refresh yourself with this bottle! We’re taking it easy the last week of the year with reposts of some of our 2009 faves! In case you missed it: the bottle that proved “the best” is always a fleeting label. —REPOSTED,...
Designer Water is SO Last Year...
Designer Water is SO Last Year
In 2008 and 2009, Evian partnered with influential international fashion designers Christian Lacroix (2008) and Jean Paul Gaultier (2009) to create limited edition “Prêt-à-Porter” water bottles. (For you non-fashionista types, “Prêt-à-Porter” refers to the mass market version,...
For No Debris, Choose DMZ...
For No Debris, Choose DMZ
Entrepreneurship springs eternal when it comes to bottled water, so we’re only slightly surprised that it is now springing from the Korean Demilitarized Zone. That’s right, DMZ water, extracted from that narrow strip that is one of the most heavily guarded plots of land in the world. From...
Ducks Cheerleader Should Have Ducked...
Ducks Cheerleader Should Have Ducked
Will this water-bottle violence never end? (Our rule: Three observances equals a certified trend! Here’s the first and the second!) In the latest installment of water bottle as weapon, irate University of Arizona football fans hurled polyethylene projectiles onto the field in a November 21st...

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