Most backpacks have pockets such as the mesh pocket pictured hear. I've noticed the most common use (if it is being used at all) is to carry some sort of water bottle as pictured here. Unfortunately most of these types of pockets are too shallow and all together unsuited for holding a water bottle, and the bottles fall out very frequently. Especially as the pocket gets used, the elastic soon begins to wear out and just compounds the problem. Even if the pocket is being used for something that fits all the way down in the pocket, the pocket seems to be designed under the pretense that the backback will always be upright as it is in the picture. Unfortunately this is not at all the case. If the backpack ever fell over, whatever was down in the mesh pocket would easily fall out.
SOLUTION:
One easy approach to dealing with this problem would be to simply make the pocket deeper. This would especially help keep water bottles from fallin out. The pocket in the picture is clearly too shallow, and simply making it deeper would be a great improvement, even if it wouldn't completely solve the problem. Another improvement that could be made would be to replace the elastic band at the top with a inelastic strap that could be tightened as needed. This strap could completely close the pocket if needed or just tighten to increase the pressure on whatever it is being used to hold. This would be especially effective for a bottle shape or anything that tapers off at the top. The strap could tighten so that whatever was being help would not be able to fall out. Also, the fact that it is inelastic decreases the speed at which the strap would wear out.
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