Oh. Wow. It's finally happened.

[missroserose]

Someone's really, actually, honest-to-blog, going and bottling New York's tap water to sell.

Proving that entrepreneurial spirit (and human gullibility*) don't end, even in a recession.

I'd make some snarky comment here about how I was going to unveil my new DVD Rewinder (It spins! It whirs! Stupid people buy them!), but someone's already done that, too.

Satire's just dead, isn't it?

*To be fair, it's not quite as crazy as it sounds - New York apparently has a fantastic water supply, and lots of people just want the convenience of bottled water and don't care much where it comes from - and hey, TAP'D NY is cheaper and emits less carbon to get to the store! Still, I'm honestly curious whether it would work as a saleable product if it weren't coming on the heels of a decade-plus of conditioning people to buy bottled water by purporting its supposed health benefits over regular tap water.

Also, hasn't anyone looked at that and gone, "I could buy a Nalgene bottle and fill it at the tap for cheaper?"

Comments

[errant-variable.livejournal.com]

The big draw of bottled water in deep urban environments with old buildings is that the municipal supply might be awesome but within the building or neighborhood there might be all kinds of issues - lead solder, corroded pipes, regular outages... so drinking from a bottle isn't a bad idea. Alternately, in Eugene, the municipal supply apparently is considered too polluted to drink (dont blame them - last time I was there the air was all "Holy Mexico City, Batman!" and I drank from a gallon jug of botled water most of the time I was there.

Also, Fairbanks

Where I have issue with is tiny inefficient bottles that get tossed and to some degree designer water.

[gracewanderer.livejournal.com]

This is bullshit. SLC has the best tasting water in the country.