Andrew Peykoff Jr. had spent four years at the bottled water business his father built over three decades.
Generally speaking, the pace of growth in bottled water accelerated with the introduction of antidepressants.
But supermarket shelves were reported to have been cleared of bottled water by Thursday morning.
Aquafina, a bottled water it launched in the U.S. that same year, is a hit.
This isn't the first time that investors have had a love affair with bottled water.
The company also signed up PepsiCo, which in 1997 tapped Purfresh to disinfect bottled water.
The new soft drink-like packaging helped fast-track bottled water's growth past milk and beer.
Bottled water has led that growth, with consumption nearly doubling to 21 gallons a year.
We take our bottled water into an office meeting lest we perish from dehydration.
Gandul also boasts that "our draft beer is less expensive than your bottled water".
The Australian town of Bundanoon introduced a complete ban on bottled water in 2009.
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More than a fifth of those who have cut back order tap water, not bottled water.
To make matters worse supply of bottled water in local supermarkets has dried up.
Some 340, 000 people are relying on bowser supplies and bottled water for their everyday needs.
Welsh Water has set up seven points in the area where bottled water is distributed.
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South Tyrone Hospital has been relying on the NI Fire Service and bottled water supplies.
Of the last bottles of bottled water from Bundanoon turning up for sale on eBay.
In a regional spot for O Premium Waters , a small bottled water company in Mesa, Ariz.
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Mr. Lopez, 25, said if bottled water was an option there, he would have opted for it.
We would rather pay 20 times more for bottled water with more impurities than the treated water.
Pollution, however, is not the reason that people in rich countries have taken to drinking bottled water.
Lasheem Thompson, 21, a resident and an employee of the supermarket, was reloading depleted bottled water shelves.
Young Raymond remembered helping his father, a lorry driver, delivering bottled water to restaurants in New York.
Bottled water has been given to homes in Broadway after reports on Friday of problems with the water.
The FDA does require bottled water companies to test for contaminants and other problems, says Joshua Sharfstein, M.
Danone jettisoned less healthy products to focus solely on nutritious ones such as bottled water and infant formula.
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The air conditioning was shut off, he said, and as the ship grew hotter bottled water was passed around.
The city will continue to provide bottled water to residents at city hall until the water supply is restored.
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And the University of Vermont became the first public university to ban the sale of bottled water last year.
The military disputes the claims and says prisoners are also offered bottled water.
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