
Bottled water attracts its fair share of bad press, maybe even more than its fair share.
One such example of this was when a government minister claimed that drinking bottled water should be made as unfashionable as smoking;
“We have to make people think that it’s unfashionable just as we have with smoking. We need a similar campaign to convince people that this is wrong,”
said Tim Lang, the Government’s natural resources commissioner.
And all of this negativity surrounding bottled beverages seems to be having an impact with recent figures from market research company TNS suggesting that last year bottled water sales fell by 9% (this on the back of approx 10 years of year on year increases in sales).
However, is the bottled water industry really so bad?
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