Methinks the big switch over to drinking spring water rather than beer in the pubs and elsewhere is becoming a problem, greed again, well they can’t blame me for that one, I never drink water, fish shit in it as W.C. Fields once said.
Seems the environment is suffering from the billions of litres of water being extracted from the Volvic region of France and exported all over the World. It’s all drying up fast.
“Since 2014, the government has allowed Danone to bottle up to 2.8 million cubic metres a year, or 2.8 billion one-litre bottles.
That translates into an extraction of nearly 89 litres per second from the Volvic water table, compared with just 15.6 litres when bottling operations first began in 1965.
The government’s top official for the region, Philippe Chopin, told a parliamentary commission in April that “environmental conditions, in particular drought, caused a drop in the aquifer that we do not believe can be blamed” on Volvic’s extractions.
His assertions were rejected by many in Volvic, where the issuance of building permits was suspended last August because of the risk of drinking water shortages – though the mayor denied any proof that Volvic’s operations were the cause.
“How can you tell people they can’t water three tomato plants in the middle of summer, when they see full trucks leaving this factory?” De Larouziere said.” RTE news.
How indeed Mr. De Latouziere.
My missus is a devil for drinking fizzy water, every time she goes to Lidl she picks up three or four 2 L bottles of the stuff, she fills a pint glass and takes gulps from it all through the day, manages to shift a two L bottle a day, that couldn’t be good for her, and I said to her recently that she should have had a damp course installed in her body before she took up the water guzzling habit, is it any wonder why more and more women are complaining about leaky bladders (as seen on TV ads).
Then there are the dangers of rust, where there’s water there’s always rust as any seafaring man will tell you, rusty hearts livers kidneys and spleens, not to mention brains to consider, and ladies don’t forget there are the neighbours, sure there’s nothing looks as bad as rusty knickers hanging on a clothes line. 
No, best to stick to beer, it was beer that saved many Londoners during the great plague of 1592. Water is a great carrier of germs, ideal for all their transport issues.
You see there’s no substance in water, water is just that…water, it flows in and out of you without any benefits whatsoever, whereas there’s eating and drinking in a pint of Guinness, I know people who have lived long lives and thrived on the stuff, and old Mrs McGrath down the road couldn’t do without her two bottles of stout every day, she was only 103 last week and can still do the highland fling, bless her dear heart.
God forbid when my lady pops it, they’ll have to pour her into the coffin.
One wonders what the acqua-holics will drink when all the spring water is gone, have to use the old crappy tap water and God knows what kind of chemicals go into that before it reaches the tap, but I suppose it is better to have drank tap water than never to have drank water at all, that’s all we got when we were kids.
Although it had it’s uses, when we were teddyboy teenagers and we ran out of Brylcreem we had to resort to free “council hair oil”…tap water.;-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=/t9JQkxu_ofE
