Movies, Books, Politicians the Water Bottle is Under Siege
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Carry a plastic water bottle at your own risk; the sway of social belief is turning on you. From high rating documentaries, to the written word and political debate, the hottest topic in town is the terror of bottled water and the waste that the industry pumps out.
The processing, moving and removal of water in petrochemical plastic bottles requires tremendous waste of water along with energy, and pumps out ridiculous measures of greenhouse gases and waste.
Director of the recent documentary ‘Tapped: get off the bottle’ Stephanie Soechtig states “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 Tapped crew are publicizing the show with their across-America roadshow, asking donations from people to reduce their water bottle use and changing their empty plastic water bottle 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. By Annie Leonard of the critically acclaimed ‘The Story of Stuff’, this animation shows the methodology that is used to conning Americans into wasting more than hundreds of millions of bottles of water a week, despite the option of a few cents cost for water from the tap. Find this documentary on You Tube.
With her book ‘Bottlemania’, author Elizabeth Royte chronicles one of the monumental marketing cons of our century and demands a super environmental alarm. She explores the problems we must inevitably understand. Who distributes the water distribution? What will happen when a bottled-water factory stakes a claim on your town’s source? Is the water coming from the tap absolutely safe? What really is the environmental footprint of producing, transportation and disposal of every plastic water bottle?
Politicians around the international community are beginning to understand that they have to start the campaign – notably when the meetings where they serve are huge consumers of bottled water. How often do we view a politician in a conference drinking from a water bottle. It is probable that they can find 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 place from Australia to cease the retail of bottled water. Some 60 townships in the US and a few in Canada and the UK have now prohibited the spending of taxpayer holdings on bottled water.
No doubt these dilemmas will be discussed come World Water Week 2010 from September 5 to 11 in Stockholm, Sweden, the annual meeting for the world’s most time-sensitive water-related dilemmas.
Article written by Tracey Bailey, founder of Biome Eco Stores.
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