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In the UK the bottled water fad began in earnest in the 1980s, partly as a response to the need for an ‘adult’ non-alcoholic drink, stimulated by stricter drink-driving laws, and partly as a response to public fears over the quality of British tap water. Currently, the market stands at 500 million litres annually in Britain; a market value of some £300 million (Edwards, 1994). It is not so long ago that the Englishman abroad received warnings ‘not to drink the tap water on the Continent’ , and was encouraged to consume only Evian water on holiday.
… bottling water is as near as you can get to printing money. BBC Radio 4, 18 August 1994
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Albu, M., Banks, D., Nash, H. (1997). Uses of mineral and thermal waters. In: Mineral and Thermal Groundwater Resources. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5846-6_2
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