It's not consumer driven. It was created and people bought it because of your ads. It's not health, bottled water is linked to cancer. If your water is regulated as good as tap, then they're chlorine in that too. And why pay for water when you can bottle it yourself at home. It cost oil to make plastic which is already bad for the environment. You didn't even think of the bad things about bottled water and made this PSA. This show's little research in your work. tsk tsk.
@Anizerda1st Bottled water does not cause cancer. This is an urban myth -- check it out: lots of website dispel this myth, snopes.com for one. Plus, bottled water is just one of thousands of products packaged in plastic. Why single out one product, that in the big picture, is a tiny sliver of what's out there. Please check out our other videos "packaged in plastic" and "how safe is bottled water".
@BottledWaterMatters So random sites that are created by unknown people say that bottledwater is good, and you believe that? What about all the LEGIT research? So apparently all scientists are lying and the creator of those sites are correct. Plastic bottles are made from oil and fossil fuels and it takes many years to degrade. This already tells you that it's not a natural product. Basically, you're saying that scientists are wrong and bottled water plastic isnt related to cancer...
Respond to this video... The only pro of water bottles is that it is convenient. It is an easy grab, instead of packing your own bottle; which is the only reason why it is still being bought by people today. If there was a way to be able to store water as portable as plastic bottled water, then bottled water is useless.
Well said Anizerda. The International Bottled Water Association produces these pieces of propoganda under the 'Non-profits & Activism' category within Youtube. 'Non profit'! the bottled water industry has been fleecing us for years. And I certainly won't take advice from a piece of blue chewing gum high on helium gas!
*WAKE UP PEOPLE* In the US tap water falls under the EPAs mandate whereas bottled water, being classified as a food, falls under the authority of the Food & Drug Administration which has weak regulations. Drinking bottled water means that the company supplying that water has less regulation and the ability to cut corners. *WAKE UP PEOPLE* Visit my channel
@thebestalkalinewater NEWS FLASH direct from the FDA website - "Section 410 requires that bottled water be subject to requirements no less protective of the public health than those applicable to water from public water systems using the techniques required by EPA's NPDWRs" (This means that bottled must be at least equally regulated as tap).
yeah and all those empty bottles keeps the garbage men working! that's a good thing too! and all that oil burned in manufacturing and transporting bottled water keeps the global warming scientists busy, that's a good thing too!
Yeah, so then why would anyone spend MORE money on bottled water? Since you are already paying for tap water. Most bottled water is even tap water, why pay for the same product twice?
1. "In a free-market society, all demand is consumer-driven!" Then why bother to advertise, if consumers can work it out for themselves (i.e. simply noticing the availability of a product in the shop)? Why are adverts not simple descriptors of the product, there for information purposes, rather than using psychological tactics?
2. Recycling isn't always the best way, as it requires more energy to convert your bottles into something new than it does simply to return, wash and refill them.
Another thing I'd like to add. Bottled water companies don't compete with soft drink companies, they are products manufactured BY the soft drink companies!
If the FDA looks after all our food products and ensures that they are all safe, then why is the supermarket food so unhealthy, packed with fillers, coated in pesticides and causes death to people who eat it? One weak point in this totally horribly made, misleading video that is indeed, an epic fail.
lmao recycled???? more like thrown away in 3rd world countries and this is a total joke!!! Tap water is the same as bottled water, all you really have to do is buy a decent filtering system and you get higher PH and better ORP levels than any bottled water...
"when you're a safe, healthy, and convenient product people love you, and you sell... big time", I've been around NY enough to know that crack cocaine also "sells big time".
OH MAN THE FDA REGULATES THE LABELS JUST LIKE OUR FOOD. So the fda allows horrible pesticides that can't be washed off and hormones grown in our own meat? what do they let happen in labels?
@Joh447 not to be a downer but in some cases its not some tap water does have a higher amount of chlorine so while it may be healthier over where you live it might not be as tasty or healthier in say chicago, i personally think that chicago tap water sucks, yet south from there in northwest indiana it tastes far better.
@grudgeholder692 i know... i dont like tap water for it's "Neutral taste" wich makes me feel nautious lol but there can be complications if a town suplies themselves with tap water from say: a reservoar... a problem i had was that there was a fairly dangerous disease contaminating our water suply that we got from the town over so we had to boil our water until they got the problem resolved... i think the changed the source... (and yeah i do not spell verry good so please don't call me out on it
The reason that bottled water became common was the incident in SE Wisconsin where 400,000 people contacted Cryptosporidium from their drinking water. About 4,000 were hospitalized and several hundred died. This demonstrated to most Americans that the standard methods of water purification do not work with some viruses, bacteria and protozoan pathogens. Crypto, for example, is immune to chlorine treatment. Of course, companies took advantage of the situation but also provided a service.
@Rdicebse20 Sorry, I did not explain myself clear. I agree these arguments can be used by companies that produce bottle water. However, I checked the website of this campaign that support bottled water and it looks way too amateur, specially the videos. Come one, the girls in the videos have no idea about acting!! So at a first impression this look more like something created by a group of students for some assignment. These are my two cents' worth. By the way I support tap water.
@Rdicebse20 I think this is more like a response to a school debate: two side have to make a video to defend both views. This is the other side of the story, I guess.
I've never seen a bottled water commercial, and I prefer bottled water. Get over the fact that other people may actually have other preferences than yourself.
It has nothing to do with preferences. Why would you like water in a bottle, when you get the same water practically for free from the tap. You could maybe fill your own bottles! Invent your own brand!
It has everything to do with preferences. It's basic economics, you might prefer tap water, good for you. But don't force me to enjoy it because you prefer it.
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!
In L.A. the water is sucked from hundreds of miles away, destroying the environment there, pumped aqueducts & pipes scarring the landscape, using massive amounts of energy, dosed chemicals, delivered through rotting hundred year old pipes, through lead alloyed taps, "filtered" with old bacteria ridden filter you are too lazy/cheap to replace, into a bacteria contaminated bottle that has been at the bottom of your smelly backpack. Mmmmmm!!!
I am reminded of SNL's "Mr. Bill" and feel it's clever to recycle home-made claymation here. It's YouTube, not Madison Avenue or Hollywood. Bottled water is a long time favorite of mine and I'm glad to see the bottled water makers fight back with facts. This is far more convincing than the vacuous leftist pablum expounded by Annie Leonard, who has ZERO credibility if you're a thinking person.
You made an ad hominem attack on Annie Leonard and her arguments rather than any sort of real counterpoint to her points, then supported a video which cited zero statistics or facts, just, as you said, "vacuous" feel-good claims so characteristic of big business.
@ruadriob Actually it takes 8 hours for the chlorine to dissipate, unfortunately all the other contaminants will still be in there, like any metals, radionuclide and other heavy metals, fluoride, disolved solids etc... just drink distilled water it's the purest.
@hydroxygenman Distilled water cannot be drunk for long. It is devoid of minerals necessary for the body, and leaches them from your body. You pee them out. Ask any Nutritional Doctor.
@ruadriob calories kept off, and then how many calories go INTO making bottled water -- how much oil energy does it take to extract, process, bottle and ship it? It's insane, good points.
This video is sponsored by the corporate bottled water industry. Using bottled water is stupid and if your worried about your water buy a water filter.
@rameshksharma1: John Hopkins' Rolf Halden, PhD, PE, can clear this up for you: "This is an urban legend. There are no dioxins in plastics." And Kellogg Schwab, PhD, associate professor and director of the School’s Center for Water and Health: "While dioxins are extremely toxic, there are no dioxins in plastics."
can anyone tell me (with a legitimate source cited) if drinking(hard) tap water from your faucet is ok? i am completely freaked out about drinking purified water anymore...and would like to switch to tap. if anyone would be so kind to please help me find this information, i would be grateful. thank you.
@sparkle456 It would be best to refer to your local council for water testing results. Also there are websites on the 'net that show you where safe -tap- water is to drink.
Unless you live in an extremely contaminated area (like L.A or the now excluded Chernobyl), it ain't safe to drink tap water, as it is really, really contaminated.
But if you aren't in a really big city, it is Ok to drink tap water.
Actually, I drink water from the shower, while I shower.
So yes, it shouldn't do you harm.
And it helps build a better immune system if it is a little dirty.
The argument Tap vs Bottled is ridiculous: Municipal water suppliers are allowed to distribute contaminated water, as long as they "inform" the public about the contamination. I get a letter twice a year letting me know that my tap water exceeds the EPA Maximum Contaminant Levels for Arsenic and Fluoride. If this water was in a bottle it would NOT be allowed to be distributed. Also some of the first responders in a crisis for disaster relief are the bottlers with small thanks from JQ Public!
@JMRNH so get a filter. it's whacked to spend $3 a bottle for something you get for free. the filter would save you money in the long run and it's better for the environment than buying that plastic bottle.
I love Perrier, Mountain Valley and San Pellegrino in glass! But glass is heavy and that means a potentially larger carbon footprint when shipping. You mention "filter stations" as if something needs to be done to tap water to make it drinkable. With so much packaged in plastic, it's odd you pick on the healthiest beverage around. BTW, PET doesn't leech.
Nice try! single use plastic bottles will never be environmentally friendly, even if you manage to reach 100% downcycling.
Bottled water may be healthier than other bottled beverages but obesity is also linked to estrogen mimicking chemicals found in plastics. If you really care for our health bring back refillable glass, or better still, provide filter stations where we can fill our own bottles! BYO bottle is best for our health, wealth and planet.
It's not consumer driven. It was created and people bought it because of your ads. It's not health, bottled water is linked to cancer. If your water is regulated as good as tap, then they're chlorine in that too. And why pay for water when you can bottle it yourself at home. It cost oil to make plastic which is already bad for the environment. You didn't even think of the bad things about bottled water and made this PSA. This show's little research in your work. tsk tsk.
Anizerda1st 5 months ago 3
@Anizerda1st Bottled water does not cause cancer. This is an urban myth -- check it out: lots of website dispel this myth, snopes.com for one. Plus, bottled water is just one of thousands of products packaged in plastic. Why single out one product, that in the big picture, is a tiny sliver of what's out there. Please check out our other videos "packaged in plastic" and "how safe is bottled water".
BottledWaterMatters 4 months ago
@BottledWaterMatters So random sites that are created by unknown people say that bottledwater is good, and you believe that? What about all the LEGIT research? So apparently all scientists are lying and the creator of those sites are correct. Plastic bottles are made from oil and fossil fuels and it takes many years to degrade. This already tells you that it's not a natural product. Basically, you're saying that scientists are wrong and bottled water plastic isnt related to cancer...
Anizerda1st 4 months ago 2
Respond to this video... The only pro of water bottles is that it is convenient. It is an easy grab, instead of packing your own bottle; which is the only reason why it is still being bought by people today. If there was a way to be able to store water as portable as plastic bottled water, then bottled water is useless.
Anizerda1st 4 months ago 2
Well said Anizerda. The International Bottled Water Association produces these pieces of propoganda under the 'Non-profits & Activism' category within Youtube. 'Non profit'! the bottled water industry has been fleecing us for years. And I certainly won't take advice from a piece of blue chewing gum high on helium gas!
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*WAKE UP PEOPLE* In the US tap water falls under the EPAs mandate whereas bottled water, being classified as a food, falls under the authority of the Food & Drug Administration which has weak regulations. Drinking bottled water means that the company supplying that water has less regulation and the ability to cut corners. *WAKE UP PEOPLE* Visit my channel
thebestalkalinewater 5 months ago 5
@thebestalkalinewater NEWS FLASH direct from the FDA website - "Section 410 requires that bottled water be subject to requirements no less protective of the public health than those applicable to water from public water systems using the techniques required by EPA's NPDWRs" (This means that bottled must be at least equally regulated as tap).
BottledWaterMatters 5 months ago
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Stop lying, you stupid bottle.
wjgmspeedy 7 months ago
Yeah! People like to spend money on free stuff! Because it's from TaP WATER SOURCES!You idiot.
shewithwings 7 months ago
yeah and all those empty bottles keeps the garbage men working! that's a good thing too! and all that oil burned in manufacturing and transporting bottled water keeps the global warming scientists busy, that's a good thing too!
jwallbanger 8 months ago
TAP WATER ISN'T FREE YOU PAY A HUGE WATER BILL PEOPLE!!!!!!
BlossomCheer 8 months ago
@BlossomCheer
Yeah, so then why would anyone spend MORE money on bottled water? Since you are already paying for tap water. Most bottled water is even tap water, why pay for the same product twice?
trucanuck14 8 months ago
@BlossomCheer get you maths on
ptuku 8 months ago
@BlossomCheer Bottled bottled water costs 2,000 times more than tap water (see the video "the story of bottled water").
conklir 8 months ago
Lamesauce
CroFabulous 8 months ago
The department of education has reduced most Americans into morons... videos like these don't help
sapperzulu 9 months ago
propaganda
andyramage70 9 months ago
3. Your competitors are other bottled drinks, which you're better than? Well, so is tap water.
4. Parroting the same arguments that Annie Leonard has already debunked (IIRC, may be wrong) is something of a shooting-yourself-in-the-foot tactic.
thelyniezian 9 months ago
1. "In a free-market society, all demand is consumer-driven!" Then why bother to advertise, if consumers can work it out for themselves (i.e. simply noticing the availability of a product in the shop)? Why are adverts not simple descriptors of the product, there for information purposes, rather than using psychological tactics?
2. Recycling isn't always the best way, as it requires more energy to convert your bottles into something new than it does simply to return, wash and refill them.
thelyniezian 9 months ago
Another thing I'd like to add. Bottled water companies don't compete with soft drink companies, they are products manufactured BY the soft drink companies!
mrcdplay 9 months ago
If the FDA looks after all our food products and ensures that they are all safe, then why is the supermarket food so unhealthy, packed with fillers, coated in pesticides and causes death to people who eat it? One weak point in this totally horribly made, misleading video that is indeed, an epic fail.
mrcdplay 9 months ago
just buy a filter pitcher and wash a bottle you bought two years ago
YuGiOhfan132 9 months ago
This video is hilariously idiotic.
NickjamesC 10 months ago
lmao recycled???? more like thrown away in 3rd world countries and this is a total joke!!! Tap water is the same as bottled water, all you really have to do is buy a decent filtering system and you get higher PH and better ORP levels than any bottled water...
deskpg123 10 months ago
"when you're a safe, healthy, and convenient product people love you, and you sell... big time", I've been around NY enough to know that crack cocaine also "sells big time".
comprehensivemuskrat 10 months ago
OH MAN THE FDA REGULATES THE LABELS JUST LIKE OUR FOOD. So the fda allows horrible pesticides that can't be washed off and hormones grown in our own meat? what do they let happen in labels?
grudgeholder692 10 months ago
dude... this is an add dont buy bottled water, tap water tastes better, is cheaper and is better for u!
Joh447 11 months ago
@Joh447 not to be a downer but in some cases its not some tap water does have a higher amount of chlorine so while it may be healthier over where you live it might not be as tasty or healthier in say chicago, i personally think that chicago tap water sucks, yet south from there in northwest indiana it tastes far better.
grudgeholder692 10 months ago
@grudgeholder692 i know... i dont like tap water for it's "Neutral taste" wich makes me feel nautious lol but there can be complications if a town suplies themselves with tap water from say: a reservoar... a problem i had was that there was a fairly dangerous disease contaminating our water suply that we got from the town over so we had to boil our water until they got the problem resolved... i think the changed the source... (and yeah i do not spell verry good so please don't call me out on it
Joh447 10 months ago
@NegaHedgehog
Nice, reasonable response /sarcasm. Typical of statist ilk, unfortunately.
rockandrock44 11 months ago
The reason that bottled water became common was the incident in SE Wisconsin where 400,000 people contacted Cryptosporidium from their drinking water. About 4,000 were hospitalized and several hundred died. This demonstrated to most Americans that the standard methods of water purification do not work with some viruses, bacteria and protozoan pathogens. Crypto, for example, is immune to chlorine treatment. Of course, companies took advantage of the situation but also provided a service.
BuickDoc 11 months ago
@Rdicebse20 Sorry, there so many lug-heads out there. Have a great day.
Rdicebse20 11 months ago
@Rdicebse20 Sorry, I did not explain myself clear. I agree these arguments can be used by companies that produce bottle water. However, I checked the website of this campaign that support bottled water and it looks way too amateur, specially the videos. Come one, the girls in the videos have no idea about acting!! So at a first impression this look more like something created by a group of students for some assignment. These are my two cents' worth. By the way I support tap water.
manoo205 11 months ago
@Rdicebse20 I think this is more like a response to a school debate: two side have to make a video to defend both views. This is the other side of the story, I guess.
manoo205 11 months ago
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Wiggy1138 11 months ago
@Goannes
I've never seen a bottled water commercial, and I prefer bottled water. Get over the fact that other people may actually have other preferences than yourself.
rockandrock44 1 year ago
@rockandrock44
watch Flow the film and come again.
It has nothing to do with preferences. Why would you like water in a bottle, when you get the same water practically for free from the tap. You could maybe fill your own bottles! Invent your own brand!
Goannes 1 year ago
@Goannes
It has everything to do with preferences. It's basic economics, you might prefer tap water, good for you. But don't force me to enjoy it because you prefer it.
rockandrock44 1 year ago
If bottled water is so important then why wait until the bottles are empty before shipping them to India and Africa?
SinisterTheScorpion 1 year ago
why pay ridicoulous prices for something you can gte for free i dont get it
bigfishy14 1 year ago 20
@bigfishy14 Yeah, because there couldn't possibly be anything wrong with government water. I mean, the government doesn't lie.
implicaverse 6 months 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
@driftwoodtex
If that's not a genetic fallacy I don't know what is.
rockandrock44 1 year ago
Also, can you believe the claim 'some environmental issues'? Some! What kind of ridiculous understatement is this? More like a lot!
Greedyspectator 1 year ago
Uh, yeah. Home filtered tap water is good?
In L.A. the water is sucked from hundreds of miles away, destroying the environment there, pumped aqueducts & pipes scarring the landscape, using massive amounts of energy, dosed chemicals, delivered through rotting hundred year old pipes, through lead alloyed taps, "filtered" with old bacteria ridden filter you are too lazy/cheap to replace, into a bacteria contaminated bottle that has been at the bottom of your smelly backpack. Mmmmmm!!!
m4surveys 1 year ago
@m4surveys
Than instead of supporting a globally-destructive industry (bottled water), lobby for change in your metropolitan waterworks.
geistdeskrieg 1 year ago
I am reminded of SNL's "Mr. Bill" and feel it's clever to recycle home-made claymation here. It's YouTube, not Madison Avenue or Hollywood. Bottled water is a long time favorite of mine and I'm glad to see the bottled water makers fight back with facts. This is far more convincing than the vacuous leftist pablum expounded by Annie Leonard, who has ZERO credibility if you're a thinking person.
caymuspour 1 year ago
@caymuspour
You made an ad hominem attack on Annie Leonard and her arguments rather than any sort of real counterpoint to her points, then supported a video which cited zero statistics or facts, just, as you said, "vacuous" feel-good claims so characteristic of big business.
geistdeskrieg 1 year ago
What a ridiculous video.. This has no solid foundation, it contradicts and does not put forward a confident argument about environmental issues.
If you don't like chlorine leave a glass of water alone for about 10 minutes, the chlorine dissipates.
I esp laugh at the crappy bit in this video "Think of all the calories we've kept off, is good, no?"
The it's said sounds coercive.. like a shady criminal
ruadriob 1 year ago 8
@ruadriob Actually it takes 8 hours for the chlorine to dissipate, unfortunately all the other contaminants will still be in there, like any metals, radionuclide and other heavy metals, fluoride, disolved solids etc... just drink distilled water it's the purest.
hydroxygenman 1 year ago
@hydroxygenman Distilled water cannot be drunk for long. It is devoid of minerals necessary for the body, and leaches them from your body. You pee them out. Ask any Nutritional Doctor.
BubbaLouis 1 year ago
@hydroxygenman
Uh, distilled water kills you...... in the long run.
And it is BOTTLED.
NegaHedgehog 11 months ago
@ruadriob calories kept off, and then how many calories go INTO making bottled water -- how much oil energy does it take to extract, process, bottle and ship it? It's insane, good points.
BenZolno 8 months ago
This video is sponsored by the corporate bottled water industry. Using bottled water is stupid and if your worried about your water buy a water filter.
M3minusGrowth 1 year ago 2
@rameshksharma1: John Hopkins' Rolf Halden, PhD, PE, can clear this up for you: "This is an urban legend. There are no dioxins in plastics." And Kellogg Schwab, PhD, associate professor and director of the School’s Center for Water and Health: "While dioxins are extremely toxic, there are no dioxins in plastics."
h8dook 1 year ago 2
Plastic Bottle stored food or drink item cause cancer......True...? Diaxin..
rameshksharma1 1 year ago 2
can anyone tell me (with a legitimate source cited) if drinking(hard) tap water from your faucet is ok? i am completely freaked out about drinking purified water anymore...and would like to switch to tap. if anyone would be so kind to please help me find this information, i would be grateful. thank you.
sparkle456 1 year ago
@sparkle456 It would be best to refer to your local council for water testing results. Also there are websites on the 'net that show you where safe -tap- water is to drink.
lMAXI 1 year ago
@sparkle456
Unless you live in an extremely contaminated area (like L.A or the now excluded Chernobyl), it ain't safe to drink tap water, as it is really, really contaminated.
But if you aren't in a really big city, it is Ok to drink tap water.
Actually, I drink water from the shower, while I shower.
So yes, it shouldn't do you harm.
And it helps build a better immune system if it is a little dirty.
NegaHedgehog 11 months ago
The argument Tap vs Bottled is ridiculous: Municipal water suppliers are allowed to distribute contaminated water, as long as they "inform" the public about the contamination. I get a letter twice a year letting me know that my tap water exceeds the EPA Maximum Contaminant Levels for Arsenic and Fluoride. If this water was in a bottle it would NOT be allowed to be distributed. Also some of the first responders in a crisis for disaster relief are the bottlers with small thanks from JQ Public!
JMRNH 1 year ago
@JMRNH so get a filter. it's whacked to spend $3 a bottle for something you get for free. the filter would save you money in the long run and it's better for the environment than buying that plastic bottle.
effigia777 1 year ago
I love Perrier, Mountain Valley and San Pellegrino in glass! But glass is heavy and that means a potentially larger carbon footprint when shipping. You mention "filter stations" as if something needs to be done to tap water to make it drinkable. With so much packaged in plastic, it's odd you pick on the healthiest beverage around. BTW, PET doesn't leech.
caymuspour 1 year ago
Nice try! single use plastic bottles will never be environmentally friendly, even if you manage to reach 100% downcycling.
Bottled water may be healthier than other bottled beverages but obesity is also linked to estrogen mimicking chemicals found in plastics. If you really care for our health bring back refillable glass, or better still, provide filter stations where we can fill our own bottles! BYO bottle is best for our health, wealth and planet.
sharkibus02 1 year ago