Bling H2O: Water Bottle with Swarovski Crystals for Rich People

Paris Hilton Drinks It, and (for a Price) You Can Too

Rebecca Said
Why do certain rich people try so hard to make sure everyone knows how much money they have? They wear designer clothes, drive fancy cars, and now, they have their own special water. Bling H2O is catering to the conspicuously wealthy everywhere. A 750 ml. bottle of water is $40, while the smaller version cost $20.

When I first heard about Bling H2O, it boggled my mind how people could just throw away their money like that. After learning more, I realized the idea is not completely ridiculous. O.K., so I won't be buying Bling H2O water any time soon. Still, the water bottles are really pretty. They are frosted glass with the word "Bling" spelled out in Swarovski crystals on the bottle. You can choose from many different color combinations. Including my personal favorite, a cobalt blue water bottle with white Swarovski crystals.

Paris Hilton buys Bling H2O for her dog. In case you want to be just like Paris Hilton, they do offer bottle designs named Paris Pink and Tinkerbell. The limited edition Paris Pink design is a 750 ml. frosted glass bottle with pink Swarovski crystals and sells for $40. The Tinkerbell baby Bling water bottle sells for $20. It looks exactly like the Paris Pink except it is only 375 ml. If you would like to buy a case of (12) 750 ml. water bottles, it will cost about $420! They claim that their water is really high quality water. I don't know if it is or not, but the water bottle looks nice. If I spent $40 for that bottle, I would probably recycle it by refilling it over and over for about a year.

Bling H2O claims to use a nine-step purification process that includes ozone, ultraviolet and microfiltration. Yet, it looks like ozone, ultraviolet and microfiltration are a standard process in making bottled water and not unique to Bling H2O. source I guess I am not completely convinced that Bling H2O water is worth $40 based on the water itself. According to information from the Federal Drug Administration, bottle water is not even necessarily better than tap water. I happen to be one of the few people left that thinks tap water is fine.

If you are one of those people that must have bottled water, you can try Bling H2O water in the plastic bottles less expensively. You can buy a case of (24) plastic bottles for only $24. These are 16.9 oz. bottles and do not have any Swarovski crystals on them. For the plastic bottles you can still get some appealing color combinations. These include white with chrome, white with gold, red with gold, gold with black, blue with chrome, black with chrome, ocean blue, tangerine, watermelon and lime.

Looks like water is our new status symbol.

Published by Rebecca Said

Rebecca Said enjoys writing about a wide variety of subjects. Strong interests include animal welfare, dogs and cats, internet marketing and politics.  View profile

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  • yanoster11/19/2007

    i collect swarovski,but this kind of water in swarovski crystal bottle is nothing!!! expensive, really nothing!!!!

  • Dr. David Leader10/27/2007

    Falling for the whole bottled water business is pretty stupid. They have people afraid to drink city water which is much more highly regulated. Of course, we never hear about problems with bottled water. That is probably because it is not tested as thoroughly as tap water. If it was, I'm sure that we would hear of problems with micro-organisms and chemicals. What about the though of getting all of your water from a plastic bottle? I'm sure that there are plenty of free vinyl radicals floating around in there.

  • Jennifer Claerr10/26/2007

    I use a Brita filter. I won't touch bottled water. It's expensive and they have found rat feces on the outsides of the bottles.

    It disgusts me to see how the rich throw their money away. That's not all they throw away; all that bling ends up in the garbage. Just think the good that money and all those materials could do?

  • Shanika10/26/2007

    Ooh, maybe they will go on clearance one day and I can just pay $20 for a bottle of water! Now that would be a reasonable price :) Great reporting.

  • Fabletoo10/26/2007

    Oh ick ick ick! I'm so thankful I live in Bangkok, Thailand and don't have to be faced with people this stupid (the people who buy water bottles with swarovski I mean). Crazy. There are people in the world dying because they cannot afford food or medicine and these idiots are wasting money on bottled water, which is damaging the planet. Yuk!

  • W.R. Murphy10/24/2007

    I hate bottled water. I have a well at my house, so my water tastes better than 90% of bottled water, and it's completely free.

  • Sundance McGee10/24/2007

    Hmmm... It costs me $13.00 for up to 5,000 gallons of water each month. Some privileged people make me sick.

  • Anne Ominous10/24/2007

    I have to hand it to the makers of 'bling water'. I used to think that whoever first came up with the idea of charging people a dollar or so for a bottle of water was smart... but to charge rich people $40 for water... now that's genius. I will be working on the next idea for getting rich off my kitchen faucet.

  • Leveling Truth10/24/2007

    Bling H2O in glass...hmmm... a little less Bling in plastic! Ridiculous, but still I'm amused :)

  • Grace Anne Harmony10/24/2007

    I pay for my tap water.. I was hoping to find that a certain amount of the sticker price was donated to a good cause, but as you say it appears to just be a status symbol.

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