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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Nonprofits & Activism

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• annie leonard
• story of stuff
• free range studios
• story of stuff project
• story of bottled water
• bottled water
• tap water
• drinking water
• inside the bottle
• flow
• think outside the bottle
• water

[alex14469]

I never pay for bottled water (Spring, Aquafina, Desani etc...) What is the point? I buy a filter for just a few bucks and it filters plenty of water that is much cleaner.

[NHL321GOAL]

whoever disliked must be the people who r selling waterbottles

[thedevo01]

Yeah, I never saw any of these statistics, but I could understand how this works simply with the help of a bit of common sense.

But this awareness needs to spread, no doubt. I don't mean we need protests and shit, just awareness.

[thedevo01]

Not sure if sarcastic or serious.

[1987Challenger3]

I drank tap water and got liver failure.

I stopped and 3 weeks later it got a little better.

how about that

[Yyourself]

i'm not convinced...

[cutiecookie23]

I already knew most of this without the statistics. Really anyone can understand this. Just reuse bottles, canisters etc. and if you have empty bottled water bottles reuse them, too! It isnt that hard.

[SuperBaconNinja]

Bottled water isnt that bad.

[SuperBaconNinja]

I agree

[SuperBaconNinja]

I disliked because of her squeaky voice.

[muffyfromlegal]

Razorhound what planet are you on??? Forest size is growing, lmfao. Definately not happening here on planet Earth!! Try watching the news, going on the internet or hey get an education!!!

[TuckLikesFire]

I have two things, fluoride is required for proper health (in very small amounts) and I do agree you can get lead and other contaminants from tap water. At my dad's house the water pipes are only a few years old however we have a snap on faucet filter. At my mom's house they have well water, with a ton of water filtration equipment in the basement and a reverse osmosis system (the kitchen has two taps, one normal well water, the other is reverse osmosis). And about the cold water thing; the rev