Bill Clinton drinks it, Jay Z recommends dancing to it, and health-conscious celebrities lap it up. It may cost up to $6 a bottle in the US, but Aquaçai, the latest trendy water, is coming to Britain. Welcome to the extravagant world of artesian water. Not quite as expensive as wine, but nearly.
Sourced from aquifers hundreds of feet below ground, artesian water is claimed to be the purest type of H²0 on the planet. Adherents say it is better for you than tap water because it contains more minerals. And they claim that it is healthier than other mineral waters because it is compressed underground between layers of rock so that it cannot be contaminated. Some even claim drinking it makes you feel less