Since most of us researchers get lost as observers of nature, the news that water is naturally purified by the movement and friction of water particles on rocks and sediments is probably rather unknown. At least I didn't know this as a fact and wondered how it can be that the flow and movement of water from top to bottom acts like a kind of filter on the pollutants in the water. But if you think about it, it becomes logical. I was a little embarrassed to learn that I didn't know such simple things. But then I said to myself: Neither at school did we go outside to observe, nor later in my profession as a PR consultant was this a thought. Nature was always just a kind of distant pleasure when I went for a walk in the woods or sat on the beach to think. But we know that somehow already, because in the back of my mind the thought is haunted that mountain river water is healthy. Today we have to test water all the more because we pollute it very much.
I argue that nature should neither be considered cruel nor should it be romanticized. All the characteristics we attribute to nature are ultimately human attributes. If we behave as living in it, we are better prudent and reasonable. Which doesn't have to stop you from acknowledging the beauty of the colours, the variety and the incomprehensible.
As far as buying expensive bottles is concerned: Well, yes. We do the same with other products. It is a status symbol. Just like a Porsche or a perfume. Ultimately, every value is only virtual. Some people think it's stupid that you reach so deep into your pocket for a Breitling or for sneakers. For my part, I'm relaxed and would think you don't need a lot of expensive things to be happy.
These are my six pence of thoughts to "water" :)
Of course, but applying these attributes makes it sometimes easier to make a point.
There is one difference though: an expensive car or perfume doesn't hurt anybody, if handled correctly. Raw water which might be contaminated is different in that regard. Even if it is not being sold, people still might get ill, if they drink untreated water.
Oh, very much so, I agree. I often use exaggeration as a stylistic device as well as putting subjective attributes on objects. When I , for example, say that "the river gushed merrily down the mountain, I create a feeling of lightness or I let "a volcano broil and spit aggressively" I give it an angry mood. Advertising can do this particularly well by ascribing chocolate bars to happiness etc.
Consuming things from the woods or the waters without knowing what they could do to me, like eating berries or mushrooms, I should only do when I am skilled in moving in raw nature.
Indeed, those who maybe felt tempted to drink the new untreated water can be happy to have been given your information.
But: I would think that some people may not read your article only the headline, and it hopefully does not stick to them as a fact which is absolute true. Because raw water does not kill.