Y water

We had an opportunity to drink and play with Y water at Art Center Serious Play Conference. The water is for kids and is flavored and labeled things like "Brain water" and "Muscle water". Very friendly brand. The only drawback has to be that we need those white rubber tube to connect bottles together. It would be nice if they just snapped together. Coming to Wholefoods soon!

Comments

[Nathan Cooke]

I find the Y Water concept to be extremely counter productive to the idea of sustainability. Allegedly, having kids drink this healthy water, and save the bottles so they can play with them is supposed to be solve some kind or problem.

Y Water's slogan is Why Not? Let me begin...

Having played with the bottles, its less than exciting. There are limited combinations of forms to create because of the size of the bottles (compared to something like legos). Also, I had the unfortunate opportunity to play with bottles that had liquid in them while constructing... disgusting. I don't imagine kids being extremely diligent about cleaning these out. And as you've already pointed out, people have to get these additional rubber pieces to attach the bottles together. Sure, they're natural rubber, its an excess resource though. And who wants to save all these bottles to play with? Finally, at the Serious Play conference, people were leaving them all around, not caring for them.

Oh, and the water itself is somewhat bland. I suppose that's okay, since its water though. Overall though, this is just a complete step in the wrong direction in consideration of consuming less and being sustainable.