Out-of-touch-with-Reality Silicon Valley “bros” have been smoking something bad when they manage to convince each other to pay $35 for a jug of unfiltered, untreated “raw” water.
Raw?water?is?water?that?is?bottled?directly?from?the?source:?a?creek,?a?hillside?spring,?or?a?lake.??Raw?water?is?”raw”?because?it?has?not?been?filtered?or?treated?to?remove?chemicals?or?bacteria?that?could?cause?illness?or?death.
We’ve?researched?this?topic?and?unearthed?a?few?enterprising?bottlers?of?raw?water. According to news sources, 2.5 gallon jugs are going for more than $35.
- Piers Pure?Raw?Water?(extracted?from?a?tributary?of?Pence?Creek?that?runs?through?the?feedlot?of?Piers?Dairy in Indiana)
- Büdelsdorfer?Reinkanalwasser?(Imported)?(source:?the?northern?end?of?the?Kiel?Canal?near?Büdelsdorf)
- Buttweiser?Lite?(source:??runoff?from?the?Thomas Fire near Santa Barbara, distributed by Budweiser Van Nuys, CA)
- St. Tammany Raw Water Reclamation (source: wells tapped on the Superfund site of Madison Creosote Works, Louisiana)
- Red Hook Raw Sparkling Water (source: Gowanus Canal, Brooklyn, New York)
Update: Not only is Raw Water a thing, but National Public Radio (NPR) aired a story in 2015 about Bespoke Water*. The video about the Timmy Brothers’ enterprise can be viewed here.
*A discussion about the commercial overuse of the word bespoke can be read in The New York Times.??