Do you drink bottled water? Do you know people who drink bottled water? Watch this trailer to the new doc called “TAPPED.” I hate that there is a generation of children being raised right now that only knows bottled water. WTF people – it’s called an immune system. You’ll be okay if you drink tap water. Really – you’ll live. Your kids won’t be mutants. Well – maybe they will from ingesting so much plastic from the bottled water.
Yeah – I know – there are cons to municipal treated water as well, but I think the pros definitely out weigh the cons. Let’s look at bottled water. Most of it comes in plastic bottles. Plastic is made from oil. Plastic leaches into the water. A lot of bottled water is just repackaged tap water (i.e. Dasani and Aquafina). Water is heavy to ship, thus using more oil. If you’re a fancy pants, you’re not drinking this “tap water.” You opt instead for Fiji water because it comes in a fancy square bottle and is shipped from Fiji (where a large percentage of islanders don’t have access to safe drinking water). Perhaps you are even more fancy pants than that and you drink San Pelligrino. Oooh…but glass recycles better than plastic and doesn’t leach. Correct – but it’s heavy – damn heavy! Oh…and it’s a Nestle brand…like they need another water brand. Nestle is like the Phillip Morris of water. San Pelligrino, Perrier, Vittel, Ice Mountain, Deer Park, Poland Spring, Deer Park, Zephyrhills, and of course, plain old Nestle.
When I was growing up, no one drank bottled water. Some might have taken old milk jugs to the grocery store to fill up for $0.25 from their filtered water. Perrier and Evian were the only bottled waters you could buy. Then sometime in the late 80’s it started catching on more and more. At some point there was a mindset projected on the population that you were a bad person if you didn’t drink bottled water. I just don’t understand it.
Water is a precious commodity – protect it – drink it – from the tap. I know it’s hard to believe here in the good old U.S. of A. that there will be wars fought for water, but there will be. It’s the next oil, you know (which we need to package the water for you).
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Tapped, a new documentary about the bottled water industry from director Stephanie Soechtig and the producers of Who Killed the Electric Car?, is a pretty damning look at how consumers have been tricked into spending too much money on water packaged in plastic and quite often not as clean as what’s available from the faucet.
I knew bottled water sucks, but I didn’t know it sucks this much. Not only is it a clear waste of resources (only 20 percent of plastic water bottles used in the United States are recycled, and far too many of the rest probably end up in the Pacific Garbage Patch), it’s an incredible waste of money for consumers, who pay more than the price of gasoline for water that’s marketed as “pure,” but in reality is largely unregulated, full of harmful toxins like BPA, and far less safe for drinking than free tap water. (In fact, 40 percent of the time, bottled water is nothing but municipal tap water, freed from the government oversight that keeps it safe.)
Tapped, which began a one-week run at the IFC Center in New York on Friday, traces the evolution of bottled water from its hoity-toity Perrier days to its present ubiquity, and succeeds at making the industry reps look like total jerks. A few too many mid-interview cutaways to Soechtig looking concerned came off as a little journalistically self-important, but Tapped does a solid job of covering every aspect of this damaging industry and inspiring more outrage than despair. It features interviews with the likes of Atlanta mayor Shirley Franklin and Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), not to mention some footage of Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) tearing into an FDA rep at a government hearing.
I will never look at bottled water with anything less than loathing from now on.
This will be an important doc. Catch it if you get a chance.
I drink tap all the time at work. At home though we goto the water store and refill out huge bottle there. At work they have a filtered cooler.
I haven't bought bottled water for years and never will again. The powers that be really have people fooled with this stuff. I have a filter in my fridge and that's where I get my water. I didn't want to keep adding to the landfills.
I haven't bought bottled water for years and never will again. The powers that be really have people fooled with this stuff. I have a filter in my fridge and that's where I get my water. I didn't want to keep adding to the landfills.
I have a natural spring about a mile from my house that I fill up on about 1 every other week. Bought a 2 gallon dispenser for like 3 bucks and it tastes better than ANY bottled water I've ever drank and BAM... no waste...
True--Notice no companies (especially Nestle') are talking about "imported mountain springs" anymore, now that fair-practices forced them to reveal they were just clean-filtering domestic tap water...
Now, their marketing focuses on "We filter our water with care", to sell the clean angle--
While the tap-filter companies like Pur and Brita now focus on just what happens to all those darn plastic bottles you buy for the "filtered" tap water you could be getting from home.
Yeah my wife and I refill our gallon bottles at the local water store which gets their water from tap. My friend said in the long run it's cheaper to get a home filtration system but since we are in an apartment I don't want to mess with the plumbing. For $1.40 we get enough water to last us 2 weeks.
This seems like great information. I have a water filter installed, which taste's much better than bottled water, and use Klean Kanteens specifically to remove plastic from my consumption and to help prevent further waste.
This film seems more like an attack on plastic and waste than water. I wonder why they choose not to lump all the other beverages and foods consumed in plastic containers into their film/argument?
This seems like great information. I have a water filter installed, which taste's much better than bottled water, and use Klean Kanteens specifically to remove plastic from my consumption and to help prevent further waste.
This film seems more like an attack on plastic and waste than water. I wonder why they choose not to lump all the other beverages and foods consumed in plastic containers into their film/argument?
Yeah, I think it would be better to make a documentary about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
I guess they want to tackle a specific industry so the scope isn't too wide.
Regardless of whats good ro bad for you, I will drink whats convenient to me.
If I am at home, filtered tap water
If I am at work, filtered tap water from our work's dedicated filter (or something like that..)
If I am nowhere near tap water and am thirsty as hell, whatever's cheapest. Even if it's Figi. Which is damn refreshing BTW.
I haven't bought bottled water for years and never will again. The powers that be really have people fooled with this stuff. I have a filter in my fridge and that's where I get my water. I didn't want to keep adding to the landfills.
Plus the amount of money you save alone is worth it.
I've seen the doc's that show the bottled stuff is exactly the same as any city tap water. The fact that so many 'health' nuts pay for it 5 times a day is ridiculous. Wanna waste money? Give it here, I'll take care of it.
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Tapped - The bottled water documentary
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