This paper considers bottled water with respect to the three pillars of sustainability:
economic viability, environmental impacts, and social equity. Per-capita consumption of …

In several European countries and at the level of the European Union, we can observe
political and societal attempts to promote the use of tap water. Most prominently, the …

Water insecurity in developing country contexts has frequently led individuals and entire
communities to shift their consumptive patterns towards bottled water. Bottled water is …

The inclusion of packaged drinking water (PDW) as a potentially improved source of safe
drinking water under Goal 6.1 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) reflects its …

The bottled mineral water sector is strategic to countries like Brazil and understanding the
factors that guides the purchase and consumption by men and women becomes vital to the …

The increasing pressure on freshwater resources motivates the need for exploring new
water harvesting methods, critical for global sustainable development. Atmospheric water …

The Vittel case serves as a salient reference point in academic and policy discussions
related to user-financed payments for ecosystem services (PES), but critical views are …

Although piped water is a safely managed water source, many people prefer drinking
packaged/bottled water, which undermines environmental sustainability by creating waste …

Increasingly, bottled natural mineral water (NMW) is proposed as a healthy and safe
alternative to supply water. However, tap supply water often comes from aquifers (TGW) …

The notion of a universal right to water offers an interesting paradox because of its uneven
and often inequitable global availability and wide-ranging variability in distribution and …