{"id":833,"date":"2009-02-02T11:26:22","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T11:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/?p=833"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:54:16","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:54:16","slug":"bottled-water-market-is-decreasing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/bottled-water-market-is-decreasing\/","title":{"rendered":"Bottled water market is decreasing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"right off\" img src=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/rain.jpg\">Without meaning to indulge in a bit of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schadenfreude\">Schadenfreude<\/a> (I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get enough of this German word), I was happy to see that the bottled water market is starting to dry up. Bottled water was one of the first topics<a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/water-load-of-trash\/\"> I blogged about on Energy Refuge<\/a> and since then the world has changed and some times such changes can benefit the environment. True, the market is still growing, but at a much smaller pace than it had been before. Says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/bwdaily\/dnflash\/content\/jan2009\/db20090130_552851.htm?campaign_id=rss_daily\">BusinessWeek<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The $12-billion-a-year business has gotten whacked in the past year by the weak economy, an environmental backlash against plastic bottles, and competition from trendy canteens, often filled with tap water \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 U.S. consumers gulped 8.9 billion gallons of bottled water in 2008, a 2.3% increase from the previous year, according to the research firm Beverage Marketing. That&#8217;s a sharp decline, though, from the 8% to 12% annual growth the business enjoyed earlier in the decade.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think the bottled water market has deservedly received a backlash for the utter decadence it represents. In a world of dwindling water resources, the rich, who often have access to clean tap water, help fill the planet with ever more trash just to look good with a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dchealth\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 accessory as they parade out of their high-tech gyms. It doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make sense and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not ethical.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li>No Related Posts Found! Go find some...<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Without meaning to indulge in a bit of Schadenfreude (I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get enough of this German word), I was happy to see that the bottled water market is starting to dry up. Bottled water was one of the first topics I blogged about on Energy Refuge and since then the world has changed and some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9725,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions\/9725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}