Celebrities’ Shameful Bottled Water Habits Revealed

Peter Gleick, President of the Pacific Institute, a much famed water research organization in Oakland, California is not usually the person I turn to in order to catch up on celebrity news. But it seems, Gleick is branching out. This may have to do with his new book, Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water.

In his book, Gleick addresses the “serious environmental and energy consequences of our bottled water use.” But, in this recent post, he gets to the serious, but also fun, news of water crazy bottled water requests celebrities make.

He writes:

More and more, we are seeing celebrities drinking bottled water, carrying bottled water in public, or even hawking bottled water for a fee. It is hard to miss the huge advertising blitz with Jennifer Aniston for Smart Water, in a deal that is no doubt worth millions to her (I’ve heard one million, I’ve heard four million, I’ve heard stock options: does anyone actually know? A million dollars will drill more than 300 water wells in Africa).

Whether it is Fiji, Evian, Vitamin Water, Dasani, or anything but Dasani, you can read the full compilation from Gleick. More importantly, though, when are these celebrities going to wise up and ditch this ridiculous habit. If someone is in a place where there is no clean drinking water, then of course, drink bottled water if it is safer. But I’m guessing that’s a rarity for most of these people. So, the bottled water habit is nothing but a shameful addiction. As Gleick says:

We want to know what celebrities are doing, who they are dating, and even wht water they are drinking. And we want to imitate them: do what they do, eat what they eat, drink what they drink. If we’re going to look up to them as role models at all, wouldn’t it be nice if they were good ones?