The rapid growth of bottled water use in low- and middle-income countries, and its normalization as a daily source of drinking water, does not provide a pathway to universal access. Generous and sustained investment in centralized and community utilities remains the most viable means for achieving safe water access for all.
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The authors thank their colleagues A. Post, H. Silverberg, J. Colford, K. Nelson and S. Karasaki for helpful comments on an earlier draft of this Comment. Partial funding for this work was provided by the College of Natural Resources at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.
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Cohen, A., Ray, I. The global risks of increasing reliance on bottled water. Nat Sustain 1, 327–329 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-018-0098-9
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