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Best of 2009: Bottled Water for Pervs

December 31, 2009
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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 [...]

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What Modern Water Engineers Can Learn from Ancient Infrastructure

December 17, 2009

From TED: The ancient ingenuity of water harvesting: With wisdom and wit, Anupam Mishra talks about the amazing feats of engineering built centuries ago by the people of India’s Golden [...]

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The Absurdity of Umbrellas

September 24, 2009

A 2008 finalist in Vimeo’s Intelligent Use of Water Contest, Rainwater Harvesting is a beautiful clip from India’s Centre for Science and Environment that suddenly makes umbrellas seem ridiculous (at least [...]

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It’s Shit You Drink: Back-Alley Indian Water Bottlers

May 5, 2009

We’re generally trusting souls over here in our U.S. ivory tower but elsewhere in the world, trust not when it comes to  your drinking water supply. In the memorably titled [...]

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The Perversion of Bottled Water

February 17, 2009

The amazing Yellow Surprise motivated me to begin this blog and I believed that it (along with ASS) would reign supreme in funny-water brand-land forever. Never say never. Yellow Surprise [...]

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I Wooden Drink This

January 27, 2009

We don’t need to tell you, again, to read labels, do we? Daniel did, and discovered that his water was bottled by an Indian plywood company. (Photo from his Picasa album [...]

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Bad Bottle #17: Somewhere faraway there breathes the soul of a copywriter

September 24, 2008

I don’t know where the site www.finewaters.com originates, but the enthusiastic writer/s certainly speak English as a second language. And how charming it is, their passion and enthusiam breaking the language barrier to [...]

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Bad Bottle #11: A Transparent Marketing Ploy

September 5, 2008

When faced with a myriad of choices in bottled water, heaven knows we want the one that’s safe. Seen in India by Flickr-er Chinita Jill, who reports that SAFE is [...]

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