Bottled Water
topic on 3 shows · 5 statements across 3 episodes
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Cessario: Bottled water surpassed soda as the top US beverage category
“Bottled water just surpassed carbonated soft drinks as the number one packaged beverage category in the US. It was like twenty billion at the time.”
New York heavily regulates bottled water but exempts beverages with added caffeine
“So like a state like New York, if you bottle water outside the state of New York, and you want to sell bottled water in New York, you have to go through an eight month process, submit geological reports of where your facility is, like, All kinds of crazy stuff…”
Friesen: Source hydropanels cost $2,000 and produce water cheaper than bottled water
“So if you buy source hydropanel online, which is the way that Americans can get our hydropanels directly, they're about 2000 dollars a piece. And so, and of course you have to ship them and install them. So when you amortize that cost out, right, that's alread…”
Aronson: Mexico Is the World's #1 Bottled Water Consumer Per Capita
“Mexicans have gotten that message loud and clear, and that means that Mexico has become the number one consumer per capita of bottled water in the world.”
Mexicans Spend More on Drinking Water Than Broadband and Phone Combined
“70% of the tap, 70% of the bottle water that's consumed in Mexico are these five-gallon jugs, and typical family will be buying about two of those per week, which means that the average Mexican family is spending more per month on their drinking water than on …”