Australia - Virginality, minerality or gullibility? Why are we drowning in bottled water?

In the 1992 film The Player, Tim Robbins’ slimy movie executive, Griffin Mill, orders different brands of bottled water in every scene, often sending them back as you might a corked wine. Director Robert Altman no doubt intended this as a comment on the stratospheric snootiness of Hollywood, using boutique water as the gold standard for pretentiousness.

Fifteen years later, in one sense at least, we have all become Griffin Mills. Bottled water is big business in Australia, where the market has grown by 42 per cent since 2002. Australians drank 252 million litres of the stuff in 2006, at a cost of $385 million..............

Maybe they don't like the fluoride and chlorine?

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