We need to talk about your water bottle
From our UK edition
Why does everyone in Britain carry water bottles these days? On a dog walk in London a few days ago, a friend asked – with genuine concern – whether I had left mine behind. She could not comprehend that I might have ventured out without one. The very next day I bumped into a well-respected man in his forties – a councillor, no less – who breezed past with the words: ‘Sorry, can’t stop. Just popping out to get a water bottle. I’ve lost mine.’ The water bottle is the perfect modern accessory: faintly virtuous, mildly performative and entirely unnecessary I cannot pinpoint when these Chinese cylinders became a necessity. As a child, we simply…went outside. Occasionally, we became thirsty. Eventually we encountered water. It was all very straightforward.
