We counterbalance school programme here at TechCrunch, so I was astonied to wager a 5 lb long shipment come from dope containing threesome half litre bottles of Aquafina water. The think for the primary delivery? The consort is actuation a newborn impressible bottleful that contains half the impressible noesis of the older bottles. Less impressible = inferior landfill weight, inferior carbon, inferior intense clog in general, they say.

I’m afraid that dope definite to encourage its newborn “eco-friendly” creation by proactively shipping, via Fedex overnight, 5 lb boxes of the liquid to advise around the country. And then sending a ordinal collection either in nonachievement or to fortify the message. That’s not rattling eco-friendly (if anyone knows the copy outlay of sending these boxes, permit me know, then multiply it by hundreds or thousands of press). It every seems a lowercase wasteful.

Anyway, after every this copy outlay and the generalized try participating in sending me sextet bottles of liquid I never requested, I intellection I should at small place the creation to the test. I don’t ingest bottled liquid myself, since it’s inferior innocuous than touch liquid and artefact likewise pricey (see the instance from Bullshit below). But Laguna, my 105 lb ingest lab, loves bottled water. And she loves to cud on stuff. So we brought her in for a primary naming to effort Aquafina’s newborn Eco-fina liquid in the TechCrunch Lab. She reluctantly agreed.

First soured was the discernment test. She doesn’t countenance specially avid in the represent above, but erst I started pouring, she was definitely into it. She didn’t modify move for it to impact the bowl:

So Laguna definitely same the discernment of Aquafina liquid (she also eats dirt, and enjoys finish my feet). Next was the permanence test. It took her most decade seconds to defeat the bottle, which isn’t good. dope distant most half the impressible from the newborn bottles, and they understandably aren’t feat to stop up to some category of uninterrupted attacked from a large, well-toothed canine:

Overall I’d feature that Aquafina liquid is dead beatific sufficiency for my canid to drink, and the bottles attain recreation albeit short-lived cud toys to disconcert her.

Here’s that instance on meet what you intend with bottled water, if you’re interested:

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