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

[Lilit H]

Great Video! Thank you for making it.

[Tuyen Nguyen]

In some countries, tap water isn't that clean, we wouldn't dare to drink from a tap =))

[Rattielicious]

Some will argue 'but its spring water' and keep buying bottled water. Another sad thing is the price of water here has gone up a lot (as well as gas and electricity and everything else!), soon bottle water might be cheaper option lol

[Rattielicious]

I live in Australia and you would be shocked how many buy bottle water and there is nothing wrong with the tap water. A filter can fix most things associated to tap water and baffles me we are forced to accept additives to our water in modern times when people can get toothpaste everywhere if worried about dental health...but that is a whole other issue :)

[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!