The Story of Bottled Water (2010)

http://storyofbottledwater.org

The Story of Bottled Water, released on March 22, 2010 (World Water Day) employs the Story of Stuff style to tell the story of manufactured demand—how you get Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week when it already flows from the tap. Over five minutes, the film explores the bottled water industrys attacks on tap water and its use of seductive, environmental-themed advertising to cover up the mountains of plastic waste it produces. The film concludes with a call to take back the tap, not only by making a personal commitment to avoid bottled water, but by supporting investments in clean, available tap water for all.

Our production partners on the bottled water film include five leading sustainability groups: Corporate Accountability International, Environmental Working Group, Food & Water Watch, Pacific Institute, and Polaris Institute.

And, for all you fact checkers out there, http://storyofstuff.org/pdfs/StoryOfBottledWater_pdfs.zip

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[TravellerTTT]

@xxNephlimxx Still love it.

[kefsound]

@jamesgreenmont ...and eat meat.

[RisingLotusAllergy]

Thank you for sharing this video! Its why I started a water company that uses my own city tap water and puts it through a Vortex unit that restructures the water.

[945nico]

@marcusschumacher801 haha ok

[marcusschumacher801]

@945nico ya i know, i was just kidding :(

[945nico]

@marcusschumacher801 Are you kidding me? You didnt get it. The process of decomposition take thousands of years. That doesnt mean there were bottles in the B.C years!

[xxNephlimxx]

@TravellerTTT DOWN WITH FLUORIDE!!! DOWN WITH BOTTLED WATER!!!

DOWN WITH THE NWO!!! WOOOOOT FREEDOM!!!!!!!!!!!!

[marcusschumacher801]

4:31 Thousands of years? Really? I dont think they had bottled water in the B.C. years

[marcusschumacher801]

I dont know what they are talking about when they say that tap tastes better that bottled. Tap is nasty!

[Mumsplaymoney]

Hydrofluorosilic acid is recovered from the smokestack scrubbers during the production of fertilizer. This industrial grade source of fluoride is used to fluoridate drinking water.

It is an industrial toxic waste product which have never been proven safe for human consumption. If you want less people drinking bottled water, you need to force our governments to stop adding toxic poisons to tap water!!!