United Arab Emirates · Wired
What matters most is drinking enough safe water to replace the fluid the body sheds
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Minerals are responsible for some of the genuine differences between waters.
Key facts
- At the extreme end of the category, Svalbarði Polar Iceberg Water sells Arctic water for as much as €100 (around $116) a bottle
- According to Michael Mascha, who founded the platform FineWaters in 2002 to train water sommeliers and drag premium bottled products out of the commodity aisle, prices often reflect remote sourcing
- Fundamentally, true hydration is about consuming enough water throughout the day to replace daily losses rather than brand status or origin,” says Lucy Semerjian, associate professor
- Total dissolved solids, or TDS, measures the combined concentration of dissolved substances in water
Summary
Supermarket shelves now distinguish between glacial, iceberg, volcanic, spring, mineral, and alkaline water. The category’s growth rests on a mixture of verifiable differences and carefully constructed associations. According to Michael Mascha, who founded the platform FineWaters in 2002 to train water sommeliers and drag premium bottled products out of the commodity aisle, prices often reflect remote sourcing and difficult transport rather than superior health benefits. There is no established evidence that luxury water hydrates an otherwise healthy person better simply because it is more expensive or comes from a celebrated source. “Fundamentally, true hydration is about consuming enough water throughout the day to replace daily losses rather than brand status or origin,” says Lucy Semerjian, associate professor of environmental science and technology at the University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates.