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    How much would you pay for the best water on earth?

    I should have known by the way the waiter looked at me apologetically through his hip black glasses. By the way he told me there was a charge for filtered water, I should have known it would be a large charge. This was no case of being tricked into buying water. Still, how could I have known that I would pay seven dollars for a carafe of filtered tap water?

    In case you haven't tried it, Los Angeles agua tastes like pool water so I didn't want to go the tap route for my first Thomas Keller meal, even if it was just lunch. I wasn't drinking anything else, so I knew I'd really notice it. It was a special occasion. I was taking myself out. A charge? That's fine, I said, thinking, it's not one of those slim glass bottles or anything. It's just filtered water. It was all good. I was even feeling a little posh as I sat reading my book and waiting for my quiche. However, I was not prepared for filtered water to turn my bill into a 42-dollar one-lady food festival.

    I've tried not to dwell on it, but I have. It's made me wonder about the most expensive waters in the world, and I don't mean the ones with limited edition bottles or the ones that tack on a few Swarovski crystals to the container and $65 to the pricetag. As far as pure water goes, how crazy does it get out there? Here's a few I found...



    Note: Not all products below are available in 750 ml size. Costs are approximate restaurant menu averages.




    Cloud Juice
    $11.36


    Why so much? They say it's 9,750 drops of rain drops. Cheesy but could it be true? Either way, this rain water hasn't hit ground and the company claims that it is the cleanest rain water in the world, collected in King Island, Australia.












    Berg
    $11.67


    Why so much? Ancient Canadian iceberg water. Canada, by the way, claims the second-best water in the world.









    10 Thousand BC
    $12.50


    Why so much? Apparently it takes a glass-lined ocean barge three days to arrive at the source of this water along the Coastal Glacier Mountain Range 200 miles north of Vancouver.







    Finé
    $20

    Why so much? Japan ranks as another top habitat for water. This bottle comes from an aquifer found by the family-owned company that they believe perfectly represents the healing mineral water of Japan.


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    654 comments

    • Debbie  •  1 year 10 months ago
      Thanks but No thanks I'll stick to my Smart water :)
    • k8blujay  •  1 year 10 months ago
      Either way, this rain water hasn't hit ground and the company claims that it is the cleanest rain water in the world, collected in King Island, Australia.

      *lmao* ok I can't stop laughing at this... seriously... ok, really? there are contaminents in the air that get caught up in the rain water... those contaminents can be dust, dirt, salt... not just pollutants...
    • DebbieL  •  1 year 10 months ago
      I would rather drink treated tap water than water with raindrops from our over polluted skies. Regardless of where the rain came from, there has to be some airline jet waste and other industrial pollution filtering in with the rain. Our ozone, or whatever is left of it, makes sure of that!
    • Gary  •  1 year 10 months ago
      DuBe Hemp Tea @ ocbeverages.com
    • Moritz  •  1 year 10 months ago
      I have to say that in my opinion, Dasani or Aquafina water tastes ten times better than some Expensive Evian water from France. And Evian only tastes acceptable if cold while Dasani is drinkable at any temp.

      Although I would like to know what these waters taste like, the pricetag for some good old H2O should not be anywhere near as high as this.
      So I was kinda torn between two choices.
    • Daniel  •  1 year 10 months ago
      San Pellegrino is $17 a case at Wal-mart. It's straight from the spring in Terme Italy. 12 25.3 OZ bottles. Good and affordable.

      For you tap water advocates, maybe you should read up on the "acceptable" amount of pollutants in municiple water supplies.
    • anonymous  •  1 year 10 months ago
      Bush did it!
    • Kennedy  •  1 year 10 months ago
      Tap water, if it isn't clean enough, can be the home of parasites. Parasites can cause death. If the tap is really good and naturally pure, then go ahead and drink it. If it's nasty..... I wouldn't take my chances. I also wouldn't pay $11-20 for ONE bottle of water, that probably lies in its label...
    • Sarah  •  1 year 10 months ago
      idiots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    • Jeff  •  1 year 10 months ago
      As W.C. Fields used to say, "There's one born every minute!"
    • TanasiaM  •  1 year 10 months ago
      So many hateful comments about the people who buy these bottles of water... What about other frivolous things like $100,000 wedding ceremonies, a $1,000 Louis Vuitton handbag, $16,000 for a simple black dress from a particular designer? There are so many other frivolous things to complain about. There are plenty of other bottles of water that cost way more than $20. I think most of you like something to complain about. If they want to buy it, then they could buy it.No one's putting a gun to your head and telling you to buy the $11 water. Everything today is overpriced. Get over it, it's not going to change anytime soon.
    • Sole  •  1 year 10 months ago
      My favorite water we find a couple of hours and 2 states away in a mom & pop store. It is a glacial water from I don't know where, but it is so cold (thanks mom & pop), so clear, crisp and clean that it is worthy of stopping and buying every time that I am in the area (the price is under 2 bucks) it is well worth the stop to have a bottle. Fiji is good, but only in a pinch. Absopure is good for local water. Artesian Well water was different, irony and good, but it isn't bottled, Actually the Tennessee water that Big Lots sells is fine for a buck a gallon. So is the water at Meijer (Culligan). What isn't great is the water from my tap. It is soooooo full of calcium and other stuff that my pans are chalked from one use. I may bathe in it, but I certainly don't drink it. I've gotten sick twice from it, so it isn't worth it.
    • Puran  •  1 year 10 months ago
      Things are expensive for two reasons: Either there is an x factor. Or there is a hidden tax on the nouveau riche. IMO, both these factors might be present. The x factor could be the Memory of Water. Benveniste stated: "It's like agitating a car key in the river, going miles downstream, extracting a few drops of water, and then starting one's car with the water." In which case, the pricier water might be having some unknown but healthier effect on our body. The other factor is of course the nouveau riche tax where the old timers keep fooling the late entrants.
    • Valerie  •  1 year 10 months ago
      Come on.............are we all idiots, or do we just want to market every drop!
    • Annick  •  1 year 10 months ago
      Some people don't even have clean water to drink from, but if there's obviously a demand for this from somebody.
    • Della  •  1 year 10 months ago
      There is no way that water treatment plants can remove 100 percent of the poisonous and caustic chemicals that they use to treat tap water. Not to mention the addition of chlorine and fluoride in public drinking water. I am fortunate to have a well where I live so I do not have to deal with this. But, when I drink water away from home I choose bottled water. Although, I pick the "ordinary" stuff that costs about $1.50 a bottle. No way would I pay this kind of money for bottled water.
    • David  •  1 year 10 months ago
      I sead I would try it, I dint say I would actually pay for it.
    • Fabulous  •  1 year 10 months ago
      Hey folks. Lets not be so tough on the idiots and morons. They have to do SOMETHING to occupy their time and ours. Obviously it's working. All of us are leaving comments. Go Forth My Wonderful Idiots and Morons. We need you...for something, I think.
    • Nichole  •  1 year 10 months ago
      LOL, Malvrik! My tap water does not taste so great, even though it is well water. However, I will gladly drink it than pay upwards of $11 dollars a bottle. If you wish to be labeled an idiot than by all means buy away.
    • Bonnie S  •  1 year 10 months ago
      Okay, I do drink bottled water, mainly because my tap water tastes so much like chlorine that I could just up a bottle of bleach and get the same results; that said, however, what kind of idiots would pay $20 for a bottle of water unless they were in the Sahara Desert!

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