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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• story of bottled water
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• tap water
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• think outside the bottle
• water

[ThePixieBoop]

Ian Somerhalder brought me here :D

[tina82881]

i don't drink bottled water, but i do drink bottle pepsi. so i watched it , because of ian somerhalder.

[Richyyboy9]

What is the animation software did you use to make the cartoon stuff?

[pittarina]

I was just drinking Fiji water and it brought me here! It tastes like sh**! It tastes like metal ;s it's worse than tap water actually. It comes from "natural artesian water" my big fat ass! Oh my God! My tongue is numb ;s Don't know what they put in it.

[Konabooks]

Thank you for sharing. I appreciate the time and effort you put into this, and to inform the public. Keep it up!

[Spandex08]

Half true.

[NewVision3160]

I don't like how it doesn't mention fluoride and how ingesting it hardens your arteries and many other health concerns.Fluoride is the elephant in the room.Get rid of the fluoride but good luck doing that its in there for a reason and its not your teeth!

[gaura]

I don't want to drink floride tho.

[cutiekeke00]

I was doing this for a project and you really brought me some good facts...thanks!

[orangegirrafe14]

the recycle stuff is crap...cant believe all the stuff ive ever recycled is just put in a different countries land fill,i hope more people watch this,this needs to be changed

[colorfulweekend]

This video reminds me of a friend.. She always said that bottled water is EVIL.. I guess she was right.. I need to show her this video now:)