We're now used to quite ordinary things being \"smart\" \u2013 smart phones, smart meters, smart cars, and smart goals, for example, and\u00a0Coca-Cola Enterprises has now developed \"smartwater\" to add to the list.<\/p>\n
This is not ordinary water, as might merely flow from a spring. \u00a0Although it is<\/em> spring water, its smartness comes from its first being not merely distilled but \"vapour distilled\" (as if there were any other means). \u00a0This process, we are told with a straight face, is \"inspired by clouds\". \u00a0 Following this, \"electrolytes\" are added back in. \u00a0These turn out to be calcium chloride, magnesium chloride and potassium bicarbonate, none of which is particularly smart as far as I can see. \u00a0The result is a, of course, a smart taste, that is, one that is \"clean and crisp\". \u00a0Crisp water, I thought, just what we need.<\/p>\n On a more positive note, the bottle (which itself is quite smart as it 30% made from plants) is quite good for putting your tap water in.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We're now used to quite ordinary things being \"smart\" \u2013 smart phones, smart meters, smart cars, and smart goals, for example, and\u00a0Coca-Cola Enterprises has now developed \"smartwater\" to add to the list. This is not ordinary water, as might merely...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}