27 August, 2009

Water for the wet

I can't imagine ever choosing to buy a bottle of spring water, but I've just been given one, left over from yesterday's University open day.

Apparently, a certain brand of water is "drawn from organic land".  How pathetic.

Firstly, spring water tends to be pumped from deep underground – if there's soil water in it, something's gone wrong.
Secondly, water percolates into bedrock from a huge catchment area – the claim that an abstraction point happens to be on an organic plot is utterly irrelevant unless the entire district is certified as 'organic' too.
Thirdly, don't be so ****ing precious. It's water. Unless it's specifically contaminated and verifiably unfit for consumption, it doesn't matter.