GEOG 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mineral Water, Life-Cycle Assessment, Dasani
18 Nov 2020
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Water is treated as a common property resource. Property owned and managed by the state. Resource whose characteristics make it difficult to fully enclose or partition. Only recently privatized and turned into a commodity (sold for profit) Commodity human labor turns nature into something that can be sold for a profit. Wealth and health; something for the elite. People would pay for the possibility to come and consume that water and/or to soak in baths and these kinds of places, for the medicinal value. Thinking about contemporary approaches to bottling water, and commodification of it, through social construction perspective, this has a long history. Us per capita consumption of bottled water from 1988 to 2007. Business opportunity huge respect to the amount of water that people will consume. Number of issues with respect to its regulation and marketing where it may be simply tap water. Size of country is proportional to the per capita bottled water consumption.
