6: Bigger Than Soft Drinks
sending eighteen people to the hospital: Luis Zaragoza and Claudia Zequeira, “UCF in hot water with fans,” | |
“will not be offering free water”: “UCF Officials Apologize For Water Problems, Will Offer Free Bottles Next Game,” WKMG, Sept. 17, 2007. | |
Weird Al Yankovic: Peter H. Gleick, “Celebrities and Bottled Water: Spoiled, Misinformed, or Just Plain Weird,” | |
painting by Velázquez: An image of the painting can be found at Wikimedia, | |
drinking at St. Maelrubha’s Well: Varner, | |
known in Roman times as the Hot Town: Stanley Young and Melba Levick, | |
“lay in a supply at home and cannot drink”: P. E. LaMoreaux and J. T. Tanner, eds., | |
“to liberate the genius”: Ibid., 109. | |
“destination for pilgrims”: Varner Op. Cit., 142. | |
“on the other days let him eat meat”: Ibid., 140. | |
its own ceramics works: Stephen J. Davis, “Pilgrimage and the Cult of Saint Thecla,” | |
A sketch of water bottles: Henri Leclercq, | |
breaking up kidney stones: Lamoreaux and Tanner, | |
a peculiar stately promenade: Christopher Anstey and Annick Cossic, | |
passed decrees in 1781: Lamoreaux and Tanner, | |
as ambassador to France: Arthur Von Wiesenberger, | |
Vichy bottles were popular: Eric Thomas Jennings, | |
Appollinaris became a favorite: Maureen P. Green and Timothy Green, | |
his cherished Badoit water: Ibid., 10. | |
former mayor of Vergèze: Ibid. | |
chose to keep the Perrier name: Barry Fox, “Secrets of the Source,” | |
Perrier when mixing whisky: Chapelle, | |
“battles stomach problems”: Daniela Brignone, | |
Germany more than 300 brands: Dooley Worth, “The Tasting of Waters,” | |
introduction of chlorine: Harlan Bengtson, “Water Chlorination History—The mid-1800s through the early 1900s,” Bright Hub, | |
“in their lawn mower”: “Bottled Water: A river of money,” MSN Money, | |
largest advertising budget ever: Ibid. | |
runners crossed the line: Nina Etkin, | |
more than three-hundred-fold: Paul Copley, | |
synonymous with bottled water: “Perrier Water,” Encyclopedia for Cooks (2012), | |
“an exercise and fitness orientation”: Wendy Weinstein, “Water, Water Everywhere,” | |
confirmed benzene levels: George James, “Perrier Recalls Its Water in U.S. After Benzene Is Found in Bottles,” | |
“.off market shelves for eleven weeks: Michael White, | |
the trendy Lutèce restaurant: James, “Perrier Recalls Its Water.” | |
closely trailed by Danone: “The Global Bottled Water Market by Volume,” | |
opening about 1,500 bottles: Royte, | |
fastest-growing drinks segment: Datamonitor, | |
That figure has grown thirtyfold: Gleick, | |
American drinks thirty gallons: Erik Olson, “Bottled Water: Pure Drink or Pure Hype?,” Natural Resources Defense Council, Apr. 1999, | |
rarely or never drink tap: Annie Shuppy, “H | |
“every restaurant should be offering it”: William Orilio, “The Bottled Water Phenomenon,” | |
“just nipping at you all the time”: Weinstein, “Water, Water Everywhere.” | |
the brain behind Pet Refresh: Pet Refresh, | |
may be laughing all the way: Mihi Ahn, “Dogs lapping up specially bottled water,” | |
“the price of wine, milk”: Olson, “Bottled Water,” quoting Gustave Leven, Chairman of the Board of Perrier, France. | |
Coke and Pepsi take tap water: Gleick, | |
snowcapped peaks closest to Ayer: Olson, “Bottled Water.” | |
Pepsi agreed to change: “Aquafina Labels To Show Source: Tap Water,” CBS MoneyWatch, | |
“Nestlé isn’t saying”: Gleick, | |
“what the bottled water industry did”: “The Story of Bottled Water,” Food & Water Watch, | |
convenience, style, taste: See, e.g., Olson, “Bottled Water”; Robert E. Hurd, | |
does not leach into the liquid: Gleick, | |
It revolutionized our industry: “Aqua Awards,” | |
“ice bruises the bubbles”: “Water, Water Everywhere,” | |
“the no-beverages section”: Bob Condor, “Flooding the Market: Bottled Water to Be No. 2 U.S. Drink,” | |
“the nexus of pop-culture glamour”: Anna Lenzer, “Spin the Bottle,” | |
designing a water carafe: Gleick, | |
provide counsel to diners: Brian C. Howard, “Message in a Bottle,” | |
“a sharp spritz”: Arthur von Wiesenberger, | |
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attributed the rise in tooth cavities: Juliet Eilperin, “Filtered and bottled water consumption could increase tooth decay risk,” | |
“relegated to showers”: As quoted in Gleick, | |
seventeen gallons more soft drinks: Ibid., 12–13. |