I think its funny that 6 of the top 10 water brands are owned by Nestle… 🙂
For a natural resource that most of us have access to for minimal cost, water is doing pretty well as a revenue generator. The bottled version of the stuff is currently an $8 billion industry in the United States alone, with Americans drinking about 7 billion gallons of it in 2005. That’s compared to hundreds of billions of gallons of tap water, but for a product that can cost up to 10,000 times more than its municipal counterpart, it’s still an impressive marketshare. How Bottled Water Works
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