Movies, Books, Politicians the Water Bottle is Under Siege
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Bring a plastic water bottle to your own hazard; the tide of widespread opinion is forming against you. From popular rating documentaries, to papers and campaigns, the hot news around is the problem around bottled water and the waste of resources the industry demonstrates.
The producing, transportation and disposal of water in petrochemical plastic bottles consumes huge use of water alongside energy, and creates huge quantities of greenhouse gases and waste.
Director of the recent documentary ‘Tapped: get off the bottle’ Stephanie Soechtig claims “1500 water bottles end up in landfill every second – that’s 30 million water bottles a day! We wanted to show people just how much waste is generated by bottled water.” The team behind Tapped are promoting the documentary with their across-America roadshow, taking pledges from citizens to lower their water bottle use and swapping their used plastic water bottle in exchange for a reusable stainless steel bottle. Download Tapped from Amazon or iTunes.
Another short film ‘The Story of Bottled Water’ was released on World Water Day in March. From the pen of Annie Leonard of the famous ‘The Story of Stuff’, this short film explores the process that is behind swaying Americans into buying more than half a billion bottles of water each week, as opposed to a few cents cost for tapwater. See her short film on You Tube.
With her book ‘Bottlemania’, investigator Elizabeth Royte chronicles one of the biggest marketing tricks of the twentieth century and demands a strong environmental alarm bell. She investigates the questions we must at some point respond to. Who appropriates our drinking water? What could happen when a bottled-water company stakes a claim on your town’s water source? Is the water coming from a tap absolutely safe? What is the environmental price of producing, transporting and disposing of one plastic water bottle?
Politicians all around the globe are realising that they need to take responsibility for action – notably when the buildings where they debate are high consumers of bottled water. How often do we observe a politician in a government function sipping from a water bottle. It is probable that they must be able to locate a water glass in Parliament House.
Leslie Samuelrich of Corporate Accountability International, held that “Cities and states are spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on bottled water, and that’s not to mention what’s spent to deal with all the plastic bottles that are thrown out.”
In July 2009, the NSW rural town of Bundanoon became the first society from Australia to prohibited the selling of bottled water. Around 60 cities in the US and some in Canada and the United Kingdom have lately ceased expending taxpayer holdings on bottled water.
No doubt this problem will be tabled in World Water Week 2010 from September 5 to 11 in Stockholm, Sweden, the annual meeting for the planet’s most urgent water-related events.
Article written by Tracey Bailey, founder of Biome Eco Stores.
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