Bottled water sales rose globally as pandemic took hold
Bottled purified water for households in the Philippine. Analysis shows lack of access to safe water or adequate infrastructure, coupled with health concerns, drove up sales of bottled water worldwide during the pandemic. Credit: Brian Evans, (CC BY-ND 2.0)
Families in some of the poorest parts of the world turned to buying bottled water as the pandemic sent countries into lockdown, with larger chunks of incomes being spent…