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As with anything in a newspaper you always have to wonder what the real story is. It might be that it's a foolish thing but there may be very good unreported reasons for the decision. It may well come down the the last sentence:
“This claim is trying to imply that there is something special about bottled water which is not a reasonable claim.”
One would like the media to take a fair, unbiased look at the issue and report on it in a balanced way. Very rarely happens.
I see stuff I've been involved in totally misrepresented in papers with their own agenda. I wonder if they are incabable of grasping the complexity of an issue, can't be bothered, have too tight a print deadline or willfully misrepresent tofurther their agenda. Like any piece of spin you can always set your own angle and so many people do - it does annoy me, especially when there is the possibility of people taking opinion presented as fact at face value as may happen in this case (not saying you are by the way).