I have a few arguments against banning bottled water. I'm not that passionate about this, but there is still a case worth making. Democracy is based upon freedom. You want to reduce environmental waste and your first target is water? The idea is that water is unnecessary in bottled form. So is alcohol, soda, and a variety of other beverages. You don't need them. They create garbage, but they stay in place. Only sell fountain pop. perhaps. Wait, people wouldn't go for that.
Wow. Looks like you got a few (try 100's) of skeptical comments! You might want to think about changing your tactics. I don't think anybody is buying this.
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@maneakararehe@maneakararehe Actually, it's shipping waste that's polluting our oceans -- nylon ropes & nets, commercial food & industrial containers, glass liquor bottles (with caps screwed on), fluro light bulbs. Ever taken a close look at ocean pollution? I have.
Also, the petroleum used to make PET bottles is made from a petroleum "by-product" -- it's the stuff leftover from refining gas and oil. So instead of dumping the by-product, industry is making it useful by making PET.
@BottledWaterMatters In other words your saying food containers that proliferate the market are made from a dangerous by product of petroleum distillation.
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@moviestony Actually, sales are on the rise this year. Consumers realize bottled water packaging is 100% recyclable (and recycling rates are on the rise too). Think of all the consumer products that aren't recyclable? The FDA requires all bottled water companies to disclose their source waters. Consumers are free to choose between the many types of bottled water: Spring, Mineral, Purified, Sparkling, Artesian and Distilled. Check out: /watch?v=LIeR6SoQ84A
@BottledWaterMatters Most tap water must adhere to stricter purity standards than bottled water. The EPA requires large public water suppliers to test for contaminants as often as several times a day, but the FDA requires private bottlers to test for contaminants only once a week, once a year, or once every four years, depending on the contaminant.
Environmental Working Group revealed 38 contaminants in bottled water, with an average 8 chemicals including DBPs, arsenic, and bacteria.
@BottledWaterMatters Why not just have your own container you reuse often that doesn't have to be constantly remade? Bottles that aren't wasting massive ammounts of resourses to be created and transported. Or shipped to China to be re-used. I love recycling but just fill your own container don't create the greater need for recycling in the first place. And what percentage of those bottles end of in a landfill instead of recycled? Far too many.
What are some of the filtration processes and chemicals you use to purify your water before bottling? Bottled water tastes like fluoride, chlorine, plastic or salt. Spring water tastes like a breath of fresh air, chilled or hot.put your 11.5 billion into making cleaner water sources for the WORLD, instead of exploiting those who live in a habitat too polluted to have access to clean water. Industrial cities and underdeveloped areas alike!
Oh, and nice try with the health-scare tactics.. "diabetes and heart risks" are not caused by non-bottled water. Do you KNOW where bottled water comes from? Dasani pumps most of their water from the Chicago River, the same one that the Dave Matthews Band's van dumped hundreds of pounds of raw sewage into.
I disagree. Bottled water most certainly does NOT MATTER to me. It only matters in the sense that the bottles themselves are killing our planet with POLLUTION and choking the oceans. Watch the documentary Addicted to Plastic to find out how devastating the use of plastic is to OUR (only) WORLD!!! I'm greatly offended at the very notion that there's a "movement" to try to convince people that "bottled water matters"!!! GO AWAY BOTTLEDWATERMATTERS!!!!
This is laughable, a thinly veiled and poorly produced commercial attempting to look like a grassroots movement. I would love for bottled water to be limited by consumer demand. That is all any of us have to do, cut WAY back on bottled water consumption and they will cut back on production. Altho it does serve an extremely limited purpose, in this country and all western nations it is not necessary.
This ad is targeted at the feeble-minded and unthinking consumer and not out to truly teach.
What I use is a huuuuuge recycled bottle full of delicous filtered tap water from my kitchen and put it in the freezer before I go to bed. When I'm up and ready for work I grab my awesome free water and put it with my lunch to keep my food cold aswell! isnt that amazing?!
@motherworld I am aware of the chemicals in my bottle but I dont think that's important to me. I breathe in more carbon emissions from cars more than anything anyways so yeah. I still think freezing your reausable water bottle leaves no room for excusses.
All good reasons to turn the tap on and fill up a hip flask with tap water. These are not reasons to continue to buy a chunk of plastic every time you are thirsty. Your healthy life style shouldn't really actively damage the environment, should it?
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@hablerz Check with NAPCOR -- US bottles aren't in India, the majority of post-consumer PET is shipped to China where the Chinese have become experts in turning the PET into polyester fabrics, which come back to the US as clothing and fiber filling in ski jackets, coats, bedding and the like. Check out the label on your designer wear.
@BottledWaterMatters I bypass the enitre bottle water recycling bottle issue by not buying bottled water in the first place.
I rarely buy small bottled drinks of any kind as it produces a lot of waste and it services the large companies who charge ridiculous prices for the product.
You also assume i buy designer clothes at ridiculous prices while the people making them get paid poverty wages.
I live sustainably by consuming only what i need , not what advertisements tell me to.
@BottledWaterMatters tap water is more stringently regulated than bottled water in the US, so why shouldn't people just buy a reusable bottle and make a healthy step for themselves and the world as a whole instead of feeding into corporate greed?
First of all I like your attempt to do something good, but I think you miss the point here. We do have tap water, we can filter and drink just fine. The amount of energy we waste with every purchased bottle is incredible. Rather than wasting your time to fight for water bottles, try to put biodegradable bottles (Belu water) forward or encourage people to reuse their bottles, fill them up with tap water. etc...
Personally, I prefer videos with actual numbers and figures in them, rather than poorly scripted propaganda. The Story of Stuff video has been mentioned already, here is another one I found illuminating (it takes over 1400x the energy to produce bottled water compared to the tap). watch?v=_2m0mjg_rhM
Astro-turf!! The International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) wants you to feel sorry for its members. This trade association represents companies that sell over 30 billion bottles of water each year in the US alone. Don't be manipulated!
Seriously, does this girl live in a world devoid of the many varieties of water bottles designed for repeated use made of stainless steel or even plastic? Has she never seen a camelback? C'mon. Bottled water DOESN'T matter- Clean fresh water does. Get it from your tap.............. psssst it's cleaner than what's in that bottle and it doesn't end up in the landfill.
Oh MY GOD, this can't be for real. I hope this is a cynical joke, if not.
Watch FLOW, For Love of Water Flowthefilmdotcom and maybe support these guys @ wateforpeopledotorg building playpumps third world countries, instead of supporting the billion dollar pockets of the devastating bottled water industry.
@stevesusenet :) Bestest movie eva! I love documentaries exposing corruption, greed, and corporate irresponsibility. This is one that is just one of the best, and at the same time extremely sad. African nations are being resold their own water, and watersheds are being drained and turned into deserts. The film gives hope though, and practical things/ideas to move in the right direction. :)
@stevesusenet THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT INFO! Omg, I so have to post this all on my blog. I am so buying that movie so my children (when they are born and old enough to understand) will be educated on how corporations foster unhealthy dependencies on things that are (1) given away for free, and (2) a birth right. Everyone deserves access to clean water sources.
According to the Huffington Post, this video is sponsored/made by a trade industry group called The International Bottled Water Association. Yes, drinking water is healthy! BUT... bottled water is no better than tap water ran through a Brita filtration system, and at a fraction of the price!
Ok. I have never, ever commented on a video before, but this is utterly ridiculous. I was born in 1982, but I can remember there being public drinking fountains pretty much everywhere before the bottled water craze hit. Yes, drinking water matters, but how disgusting is it that such a precious natural resource is branded and sold to us in containers that only create even more garbage? Better to write to govt officials and ask that they bring back drinking fountains.
Buy a stainless-steel watter bottle and fill it at your tap. If you're fussy, buy a filter. 1% of the cost of bottled-water and you end up with the same product, except now you're not polluting the world. Everyone wins, except water bottlers....
A big trade industry funding a faux grass-roots movement. A large portion of bottled water is actually just city tap water from wherever they can find it cheapest. Bottled water is capitalism at its most pathetic--tricking us into buying something 99% of Americans already have access to for 1/2000th of the price.
@LunaGer Ever heard of waterborne illnesses--brought to you through your tap? If not, google an article on Reuters: ""Three Water Borne Diseases Cost the US $539 Million a Year." (July 14, 2010) I'm not lazy...I'm healthy.
Take your choice away? The bottled water companies want to privatize water resources. That is choice? Every time you want a drink you will have to pay some corporation.
@Zwischen question: when you send your tax dollars to ensure that safe, clean water gets to your house from the water supply, are you going to ask your city if they are pumping that water to you using plastic pvc pipes? if so, did you know there's BPA in those pipes?
@ThePieralex Id say making 20 billion bottles just to contain tap water is pretty environmentally unfriendly , plus stealing the water from other areas in the first place. Then theres all the environmental damage from transporting the water.
The Emperor is wearing no clothes with regard to bottled water.
There's no difference in quality between US tap water and bottled water. Teenagers know this.
This video's been up for 3 days; you have 257 views and 10 comments, and the majority disagree with you.
Marketing fail. Bottled water is an unsustainable trend that's becoming unpopular. People are getting wise to you, International Bottled Water Association.
Teens can see through this advertising message, water is healthy and necessary, paying for water which has been shipped and is in unsustainable bottles is not. It's their future and they Take Back the Tap. Need more evidence? Check out the videos students made here on Youtube.
Is this a joke? Show a little pride in your work and get some decent production value! With the $11.5 Billion/year the bottled water industry makes you'd think the lobbying org that made this would make something slightly more appealing to watch.
@tappedfilm Picking on the production value is the best you can come up with? Despite your beliefs, the bottled water industry spends very little on advertising. If it produced flashy corporate videos, people like you would criticize the industry for wasting money/resources. Besides, this is YouTube -- home to handmade videos.
@BottledWaterMatters I don't think tapped was solely picking on the production so much as pointing out the unreasonable profit that this ridiculous industry makes in a year. Trying to make a cutesy homegrown feeling video when you have a multibillion dollar industry behind the camera is just silly. Honestly this video is borderline farcical. I mean you make it seem like bottled water is the only way. Try carrying a reusable bottle & filling up with the just as good tasting tap water, seriously.
@Talamore have you ever worked for an association? i have. three actually in the DC area. associations work with very small budgets (money gotten from dues--not sales). while bottled water may be a billion dollar business (like other industries that provide bottled beverages)--associations aren't. don't be confused. that makes you look silly. Plus, have you drank the water in DC? if you ever have, you'd know that you only want to drink bottled water too (and then recycle the container--win/win)
this girl looks like she has a fucking mental illness
foizy69 3 weeks ago
its called a reusable bottle. but that would make bottled water expendable!
andres783 3 weeks ago
I can barely understand this chic.
hwygrrl 1 year ago 2
I have a few arguments against banning bottled water. I'm not that passionate about this, but there is still a case worth making. Democracy is based upon freedom. You want to reduce environmental waste and your first target is water? The idea is that water is unnecessary in bottled form. So is alcohol, soda, and a variety of other beverages. You don't need them. They create garbage, but they stay in place. Only sell fountain pop. perhaps. Wait, people wouldn't go for that.
Vazeroth16 1 year ago
I drink lots of bottled water! ...from my stainless steel water bottle !
I shall not buy single-use plastic bottles!
Costly bottled water only "matters" to those who sell it for 4000% profit!
Please remember people and friends, that water is for 1 cent or less! ...or free!
When you buy bottled water, you are giving away your freedom and future.
Drink more water ~ Pay less for it! Save your freedom.
woodsprout 1 year ago 5
You can save so much money on bottled water by getting a stainless steel bottle and a home pitcher filter.
woodsprout 1 year ago 4
Wow. Looks like you got a few (try 100's) of skeptical comments! You might want to think about changing your tactics. I don't think anybody is buying this.
ninjaeyemaster 1 year ago 3
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@maneakararehe @maneakararehe Actually, it's shipping waste that's polluting our oceans -- nylon ropes & nets, commercial food & industrial containers, glass liquor bottles (with caps screwed on), fluro light bulbs. Ever taken a close look at ocean pollution? I have.
Also, the petroleum used to make PET bottles is made from a petroleum "by-product" -- it's the stuff leftover from refining gas and oil. So instead of dumping the by-product, industry is making it useful by making PET.
BottledWaterMatters 1 year ago
@BottledWaterMatters In other words your saying food containers that proliferate the market are made from a dangerous by product of petroleum distillation.
No thanks to oil based plastics !!
Rockefella was a public enemy.
hablerz 1 year ago
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@moviestony Actually, sales are on the rise this year. Consumers realize bottled water packaging is 100% recyclable (and recycling rates are on the rise too). Think of all the consumer products that aren't recyclable? The FDA requires all bottled water companies to disclose their source waters. Consumers are free to choose between the many types of bottled water: Spring, Mineral, Purified, Sparkling, Artesian and Distilled. Check out: /watch?v=LIeR6SoQ84A
BottledWaterMatters 1 year ago
@BottledWaterMatters Most tap water must adhere to stricter purity standards than bottled water. The EPA requires large public water suppliers to test for contaminants as often as several times a day, but the FDA requires private bottlers to test for contaminants only once a week, once a year, or once every four years, depending on the contaminant.
Environmental Working Group revealed 38 contaminants in bottled water, with an average 8 chemicals including DBPs, arsenic, and bacteria.
moviestony 1 year ago 4
@BottledWaterMatters Why not just have your own container you reuse often that doesn't have to be constantly remade? Bottles that aren't wasting massive ammounts of resourses to be created and transported. Or shipped to China to be re-used. I love recycling but just fill your own container don't create the greater need for recycling in the first place. And what percentage of those bottles end of in a landfill instead of recycled? Far too many.
bologniusGIR 10 months ago
What are some of the filtration processes and chemicals you use to purify your water before bottling? Bottled water tastes like fluoride, chlorine, plastic or salt. Spring water tastes like a breath of fresh air, chilled or hot.put your 11.5 billion into making cleaner water sources for the WORLD, instead of exploiting those who live in a habitat too polluted to have access to clean water. Industrial cities and underdeveloped areas alike!
maneakararehe 1 year ago 2
Oh, and nice try with the health-scare tactics.. "diabetes and heart risks" are not caused by non-bottled water. Do you KNOW where bottled water comes from? Dasani pumps most of their water from the Chicago River, the same one that the Dave Matthews Band's van dumped hundreds of pounds of raw sewage into.
maneakararehe 1 year ago 2
Reuseable bottle+water=bottled water. Water on the go does not have to cost money either!
maneakararehe 1 year ago 3
I disagree. Bottled water most certainly does NOT MATTER to me. It only matters in the sense that the bottles themselves are killing our planet with POLLUTION and choking the oceans. Watch the documentary Addicted to Plastic to find out how devastating the use of plastic is to OUR (only) WORLD!!! I'm greatly offended at the very notion that there's a "movement" to try to convince people that "bottled water matters"!!! GO AWAY BOTTLEDWATERMATTERS!!!!
LBrobie 1 year ago 3
@LBrobie Bottled water is not the only consumer product packaged in plastic (see: /watch?v=56oz8zifYX4). Also, it's shipping waste that's polluting our oceans -- nylon ropes & nets, commercial food & industrial containers, glass liquor bottles (with caps screwed on), fluro light bulbs. Ever taken a close look at ocean pollution? I have.
BottledWaterMatters 1 year ago
This is laughable, a thinly veiled and poorly produced commercial attempting to look like a grassroots movement. I would love for bottled water to be limited by consumer demand. That is all any of us have to do, cut WAY back on bottled water consumption and they will cut back on production. Altho it does serve an extremely limited purpose, in this country and all western nations it is not necessary.
This ad is targeted at the feeble-minded and unthinking consumer and not out to truly teach.
scoremat 1 year ago
@scoremat Here's a certainty: Bottled water won't be available in times of emergency unless it remains a viable industry. Think about it.
BottledWaterMatters 1 year ago
HAHA!
LOOK AT THE LEVELS THE BOTTLED WATER INDUSTRYY WILL GO TO!
StopTheRobbery2 1 year ago
What I use is a huuuuuge recycled bottle full of delicous filtered tap water from my kitchen and put it in the freezer before I go to bed. When I'm up and ready for work I grab my awesome free water and put it with my lunch to keep my food cold aswell! isnt that amazing?!
Salvia20 1 year ago
@Salvia20 Beware of putting plastic bottle of water in freezer, this speeds the leeching of chemicals into the water.
motherworld 1 year ago
@motherworld PET does not leech chemicals see: /watch?v=x3bmAkXMMlk
BottledWaterMatters 1 year ago
@motherworld I am aware of the chemicals in my bottle but I dont think that's important to me. I breathe in more carbon emissions from cars more than anything anyways so yeah. I still think freezing your reausable water bottle leaves no room for excusses.
Salvia20 1 year ago
@Salvia20 Wow Salvia, you are awesome and sensible!
woodsprout 1 year ago
All good reasons to turn the tap on and fill up a hip flask with tap water. These are not reasons to continue to buy a chunk of plastic every time you are thirsty. Your healthy life style shouldn't really actively damage the environment, should it?
MrDigitalDaniel 1 year ago
Bottled water matters ... to the corperations who are intent on destroying the planet for short term financial gain.
Tell me how are all those empty bottles doing in India ?
hablerz 1 year ago 13
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@hablerz Check with NAPCOR -- US bottles aren't in India, the majority of post-consumer PET is shipped to China where the Chinese have become experts in turning the PET into polyester fabrics, which come back to the US as clothing and fiber filling in ski jackets, coats, bedding and the like. Check out the label on your designer wear.
BottledWaterMatters 1 year ago
@BottledWaterMatters I bypass the enitre bottle water recycling bottle issue by not buying bottled water in the first place.
I rarely buy small bottled drinks of any kind as it produces a lot of waste and it services the large companies who charge ridiculous prices for the product.
You also assume i buy designer clothes at ridiculous prices while the people making them get paid poverty wages.
I live sustainably by consuming only what i need , not what advertisements tell me to.
hablerz 1 year ago 7
@BottledWaterMatters tap water is more stringently regulated than bottled water in the US, so why shouldn't people just buy a reusable bottle and make a healthy step for themselves and the world as a whole instead of feeding into corporate greed?
foizy69 3 weeks ago
First of all I like your attempt to do something good, but I think you miss the point here. We do have tap water, we can filter and drink just fine. The amount of energy we waste with every purchased bottle is incredible. Rather than wasting your time to fight for water bottles, try to put biodegradable bottles (Belu water) forward or encourage people to reuse their bottles, fill them up with tap water. etc...
arcaphobics 1 year ago
Personally, I prefer videos with actual numbers and figures in them, rather than poorly scripted propaganda. The Story of Stuff video has been mentioned already, here is another one I found illuminating (it takes over 1400x the energy to produce bottled water compared to the tap). watch?v=_2m0mjg_rhM
bonerfly 1 year ago
Astro-turf!! The International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) wants you to feel sorry for its members. This trade association represents companies that sell over 30 billion bottles of water each year in the US alone. Don't be manipulated!
driftwoodtex 1 year ago 2
This video is a corporate scam. Go the online newspaper huggingtonpost and search under "bottled water matters new activist"
stevesusenet 1 year ago
Search youtube under "bottled water" news video after news video documents that bottled water is a total scam
stevesusenet 1 year ago
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circlesforpeace 1 year ago
epic FAIL
I give the open comments section one more day...
circlesforpeace 1 year ago 2
wow, if that weren't so cynical and scary, it would be funny...
circlesforpeace 1 year ago
Bottled water pollutes
bootpdx 1 year ago
Seriously, does this girl live in a world devoid of the many varieties of water bottles designed for repeated use made of stainless steel or even plastic? Has she never seen a camelback? C'mon. Bottled water DOESN'T matter- Clean fresh water does. Get it from your tap.............. psssst it's cleaner than what's in that bottle and it doesn't end up in the landfill.
bootpdx 1 year ago
@bootpdx
Bottled water = tap water that's been marked up 1000%
;)
TalyaRaphaella 1 year ago 2
Oh MY GOD, this can't be for real. I hope this is a cynical joke, if not.
Watch FLOW, For Love of Water Flowthefilmdotcom and maybe support these guys @ wateforpeopledotorg building playpumps third world countries, instead of supporting the billion dollar pockets of the devastating bottled water industry.
Goannes 1 year ago
@stevesusenet @anemocracy Wrong on both counts. She's just an average teen who LOVES bottled water. Have you seen our plant tour video?
watch?v=WQApdi4IntI
BottledWaterMatters 1 year ago
@BottledWaterMatters
No disrespect, but PULEEEZEEE.
stevesusenet 1 year ago
@BottledWaterMatters The phrase "average teen" is usually used to sell porn.
You have no excuse for doing what your doing... you are satans little helper.
WodeBolder 1 year ago 2
@BottledWaterMatters If she loves bottled water so much, maybe soon she will buy her own bottle and refill it 4000 times.
I enjoyed finding the best size of stainless steel bottle for my needs.
If she were my friend I would buy her a refillable water bottle!
woodsprout 1 year ago
Wow, greenwash. That hurt to watch.
Just take some water with you from home and avoid wasting all that packaging!
JessClearwater 1 year ago 3
Everyone should watch the movie, Blue Gold, to educate themselves on the bottled water industry.
TalyaRaphaella 1 year ago
@TalyaRaphaella Thanks. I just added the documentary "Blue Gold" to my netflix queue.
stevesusenet 1 year ago 2
@stevesusenet :) Bestest movie eva! I love documentaries exposing corruption, greed, and corporate irresponsibility. This is one that is just one of the best, and at the same time extremely sad. African nations are being resold their own water, and watersheds are being drained and turned into deserts. The film gives hope though, and practical things/ideas to move in the right direction. :)
TalyaRaphaella 1 year ago
@TalyaRaphaella, FYI, if someone searches youtube on "blue gold world water wars" they can watch the whole documentary in pieces.
stevesusenet 1 year ago
@stevesusenet THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT INFO! Omg, I so have to post this all on my blog. I am so buying that movie so my children (when they are born and old enough to understand) will be educated on how corporations foster unhealthy dependencies on things that are (1) given away for free, and (2) a birth right. Everyone deserves access to clean water sources.
TalyaRaphaella 1 year ago
@TalyaRaphaella search youtube for "The Story Of Bottled Water", it is short, fun and tells the whole story. Great for a blog too!
stevesusenet 1 year ago 3
According to the Huffington Post, this video is sponsored/made by a trade industry group called The International Bottled Water Association. Yes, drinking water is healthy! BUT... bottled water is no better than tap water ran through a Brita filtration system, and at a fraction of the price!
TalyaRaphaella 1 year ago 3
Ok. I have never, ever commented on a video before, but this is utterly ridiculous. I was born in 1982, but I can remember there being public drinking fountains pretty much everywhere before the bottled water craze hit. Yes, drinking water matters, but how disgusting is it that such a precious natural resource is branded and sold to us in containers that only create even more garbage? Better to write to govt officials and ask that they bring back drinking fountains.
lonelyinjapan 1 year ago 2
rofl!
jenacious7 1 year ago
lol, It this a joke?
All those advantages you list are for water not bottled water. This is a major fallacy.
scottyb132 1 year ago
Buy a stainless-steel watter bottle and fill it at your tap. If you're fussy, buy a filter. 1% of the cost of bottled-water and you end up with the same product, except now you're not polluting the world. Everyone wins, except water bottlers....
ThatsKayle15 1 year ago
A big trade industry funding a faux grass-roots movement. A large portion of bottled water is actually just city tap water from wherever they can find it cheapest. Bottled water is capitalism at its most pathetic--tricking us into buying something 99% of Americans already have access to for 1/2000th of the price.
alanh574 1 year ago
Are they that worried? A LOT of people still buy bottled water. All the recycling bins are usually full of water bottles as well as soda bottles.
I'm not a tap water fan myself, but when run through a filter (like PUR, or others) it tastes fine and saves actual money in the end.
quikboy2 1 year ago
You know that canteens are widely available now, right? So you don't need to fall for fake astroturf crap ads?
marymactavish 1 year ago
Ugh.
214scifi 1 year ago
Lets not the confuse the benefits of water or even water in a bottle with the bottled water industry and the environmental issues that it causes.
itsmeagain0008 1 year ago 2
Buy bottle. Refill bottle. Never buy another bottle again.
tlgjim 1 year ago
@tlgjim THIS (Hoping the bottle is not a plastic one...)
alexprime 1 year ago
Ever hear of, oh I dunno... putting water in a bottle yourself, at home, and bringing it with you? Why should the planet suffer for your laziness?
LunaGer 1 year ago
@LunaGer Ever heard of waterborne illnesses--brought to you through your tap? If not, google an article on Reuters: ""Three Water Borne Diseases Cost the US $539 Million a Year." (July 14, 2010) I'm not lazy...I'm healthy.
h8dook 1 year ago
@LunaGer Right on
alexprime 1 year ago
Take your choice away? The bottled water companies want to privatize water resources. That is choice? Every time you want a drink you will have to pay some corporation.
stevesusenet 1 year ago
Our tax dollars should go towards maintaining a clean safe water supply that is available to all-- not bottled water!
Zwischen 1 year ago
@Zwischen question: when you send your tax dollars to ensure that safe, clean water gets to your house from the water supply, are you going to ask your city if they are pumping that water to you using plastic pvc pipes? if so, did you know there's BPA in those pipes?
viewernumber23 1 year ago
Bottled water is obviously good for you, I don't understand why anybody is arguing that.
Don't they have time to actually go after products or industries that are not environmentally friendly or unhealthy.
ThePieralex 1 year ago
@ThePieralex Id say making 20 billion bottles just to contain tap water is pretty environmentally unfriendly , plus stealing the water from other areas in the first place. Then theres all the environmental damage from transporting the water.
The Emperor is wearing no clothes with regard to bottled water.
hablerz 1 year ago 2
There's no difference in quality between US tap water and bottled water. Teenagers know this.
This video's been up for 3 days; you have 257 views and 10 comments, and the majority disagree with you.
Marketing fail. Bottled water is an unsustainable trend that's becoming unpopular. People are getting wise to you, International Bottled Water Association.
WalterThompsonIV 1 year ago 2
Teens can see through this advertising message, water is healthy and necessary, paying for water which has been shipped and is in unsustainable bottles is not. It's their future and they Take Back the Tap. Need more evidence? Check out the videos students made here on Youtube.
GoodFoodnH2O 1 year ago 44
@GoodFoodnH2O do you work for Take Back the Tap? sounds like it to me (and your tag looks like it too!)
viewernumber23 1 year ago
Is this a joke? Show a little pride in your work and get some decent production value! With the $11.5 Billion/year the bottled water industry makes you'd think the lobbying org that made this would make something slightly more appealing to watch.
tappedfilm 1 year ago
@tappedfilm Picking on the production value is the best you can come up with? Despite your beliefs, the bottled water industry spends very little on advertising. If it produced flashy corporate videos, people like you would criticize the industry for wasting money/resources. Besides, this is YouTube -- home to handmade videos.
BottledWaterMatters 1 year ago
@BottledWaterMatters I don't think tapped was solely picking on the production so much as pointing out the unreasonable profit that this ridiculous industry makes in a year. Trying to make a cutesy homegrown feeling video when you have a multibillion dollar industry behind the camera is just silly. Honestly this video is borderline farcical. I mean you make it seem like bottled water is the only way. Try carrying a reusable bottle & filling up with the just as good tasting tap water, seriously.
Talamore 1 year ago
@Talamore have you ever worked for an association? i have. three actually in the DC area. associations work with very small budgets (money gotten from dues--not sales). while bottled water may be a billion dollar business (like other industries that provide bottled beverages)--associations aren't. don't be confused. that makes you look silly. Plus, have you drank the water in DC? if you ever have, you'd know that you only want to drink bottled water too (and then recycle the container--win/win)
viewernumber23 1 year ago 2