Is the copper water bottle the new Stanley?

During Covid lockdowns is when I first started noticing people carrying a water bottle during their hourlong daily outdoor exercise sessions. It wasn’t any water bottle, it was a very specific one, it was big colourful one with a handle and straw — The Stanley. I’d see young women sipping out of it while wearing their Sweaty Betty leggings and crop tops (now the trend seems to be the same, but instead of no socks, its high white ones — I don’t understand). But now things are starting to change, I’m starting to see different types of water bottles, less cumbersome ones at my indoor cycle classes, ones that actually fit on the cycle stand. Then last week, I saw something VERY different — a coper water bottle — at Spitalfields Market in East London.

“These are so beautiful,” I said to the woman working there.

“They’re pure copper water bottles. You never have to wash them, they self-clean and they purify the water,” she told me.

I had to know more.

“They purify the water?” I asked.

“Yes, the coper kills bacteria. I just fill mine up all day long and let the old water mix with the new.”