If you are a liberal and think you have got your bases covered by buying organic vegetables, free range chicken and fair trade coffee, put down that bottle of water you selfish sonofabitch!

Which child hasn't heard the refrain, "Eat your food...there are children starving in Africa...". Well, here's a new twist from Tom Standage, technology editor of The Economist. Don't drink Evian, there are children dying of thirst in Africa.

Bad to the Last Drop

I find the illogical enthusiasm for bottled water not simply peculiar, but distasteful. For those of us in the developed world, safe water is now so abundant that we can afford to shun the tap water under our noses, and drink bottled water instead: our choice of water has become a lifestyle option. For many people in the developing world, however, access to water remains a matter of life or death.

Hmm, I wonder how may bottles of water they sold at the Live8 concerts?

Under the same logic we should feel guilty every time we buckle up in our cars (you do buckle up, don't you?) because hundreds of millions of people in the Third World rely on bicycles or walk in order to get around.

This is a psychological problem, not a sociopolitical problem.



Hearltess, cruel bastards!