London Food Reviewer says NO to Bottled Water

Times of London food commentator Giles Coren says no to bottled water in restaurants and says will penalize them if they insist on serving bottled water that serves no good purpose than create more waste.

Times of London food commentator Giles Coren wrote recently about the bottled water fallacy. He said: "Mineral water is a preposterous vanity. It is flown and shipped around the world, from France and Norway at best, from Japan and Fiji at worst. It is bottled in glass that is mostly thrown away and is stupidly heavy to freight, or in plastic which never, ever, decomposes and just goes to landfill or ends up in one of the “plastic patches” the size of Texas currently gyring in our oceans.

The vanity of it! While half the world dies of thirst or puts up with water you wouldn’t piss in, or already have, we have invested years and years, and vast amounts of money, into an ingenious system which cleanses water of all the nasties that most other humans and animals have always had to put up with, and delivers it, dirt-cheap, to our homes and workplaces in pipes, which we can access at a tap. Giles Coren says, nearly 3 Billion liters of bottled water is sold worldwide each claiming they come from a rare area, even though the difference between them is barely a minimum. The water is clean no doubt but the amount of waste it brings forth such as the plastic bottles, plastics is quite overwhelming and fills lot of landfill areas. He says, our municipalities have already invested a lot of money to get us clean water in our water tap, we should use more of that than the bottled water. The restaurants don't mind selling these products because of high margin on these bottled water drinks, which doesn't cost much to produce. I don't use bottled water that much, I have Brita Water Filter, it does a great job, keeps the tap water cleaner and tastes different than regular water. I agree with him these bottled drinks just use the water from local places and claim they are tapped from a natural spring.