March 03, 2004

Coke Sells Bottled Tap Water

Coca-Cola is selling bottled tap water in the UK. The new brand, Dasani, is normal tap water which has been filtered, and is therefore 'pure'.

dasani

My local supermarket, Queens Isetan, offers filtered water for free. Many companies sell water purifiers for the home. Yet the Coca-Cola company of Atlanta Georgia is spending 7 million pounds promoting this 'new' product.

Bizarre.

http://www.nbc6.net/nbc6specialreports/2618635/detail.html
http://www.kron.com/Global/story.asp?S=1534881

Posted by Gary at March 3, 2004 02:56 PM
Comments

I saw this stuff everywhere when I was in Canada for christmas last year.

Posted by: mark at March 5, 2004 02:44 PM

You would be surprised, in the US everyone walks around with a beverage, whether its water or coffee. Then they leave the empty container in the store they finshed the drink in.

Water in Japan is horrid, it smells and tastes like pool water, also the pipes that it is piped through are 40 years old then stored on a tank on top of your flat, Which by the way I have cleaned in my part time work career in Japan and they are nasty.

I used the AMWAY eSPRING water filter in Japan for 10 years and it was the first thing I bought in the US. 99.999% pure water. I highly recomend it. Tea, rice, coffee, everything tastes 100% better.

Posted by: Paul at March 6, 2004 01:53 PM

As you say, Paul, if everyone carries a drink all the time, choosing water is a better option than most of the others available.

If you have the energy, boiling water then putting it in the fridge overnight before drinking it offers a healthy, decent-tasting and cheap alternative to filtering/buying filtered water.

Posted by: Gary at March 8, 2004 04:28 PM

I don't know if you've heard, but it appears that the water had been contaminated recently by the "purification" process gone wrong; half a million bottles had to be recalled.

Posted by: Dirk at March 23, 2004 10:41 AM

yup, on the front page of my newspaper. Lots more waffle about McDs and obesity recently too.
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Posted by: Gary at March 23, 2004 12:00 PM