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/StoryOfB...

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[Tony Magro]

All the dislikes came from people in the bottled water industry

[E BA]

Live in Norway, never bought a bottle of water here

[nathanfishing3000]

water should have no taste...

[Rem co]

more than 50% of bottled water contains fluoride as wel.... if the % isn't even higher.....

sry bro :( im going for a tap filter as well :)

[Allan Peters]

Filter your tap water! 

[Sadhvika Agrawal]

They put all the trash near my city!!!!

[pgbthegr8]

love it!

need to get it to everyone buying bottles!

how about making a qr code or barcode of the video and paste it near the bottle water sellers!

[KurisutaruYuuki]

Explains why Parsons (college in NY) doesn't sell water bottle in their cafeterias

[Joshua Jordan]

Huge waste of money anyway... a water filter for the tap filters enough water for hundreds of bottles of water for a fraction of the price. Filters cost around 20 dollars and last for 2-3 months depending on use... while a box/pack of water is 12 dollars and lasts maybe a week?

[Charlie Harrison]

but a water filter that filters heavy metals and a tap is the way forward.