Movies, Books, Politicians the Water Bottle is Under Siege

Bring a plastic water bottle to your own demise; the sway of social perspective is forming against you. From big rating documentaries, to books and politics, the hottest debate around is the terror around bottled water and the waste of resources that the industry pumps out.

The producing, transportation and waste of water in petrochemical plastic bottles eats up big use of water along with energy, and pumps out large quantities of greenhouse gases and waste.

Director of the new 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 crew behind Tapped are pushing the show with an across-America roadshow, receiving sponsorships from citizens to reduce their water bottle use and taking their old plastic water bottle in exchange for a reusable stainless steel bottle. Download Tapped from Amazon or iTunes.

A similar film ‘The Story of Bottled Water’ was released on World Water Day in March. Created by Annie Leonard of the famous ‘The Story of Stuff’, this short film delves into the process that is behind tricking Americans into wasting over five hundred million bottles of water each and every week, compared with a few cents cost for clean tap water. Check out her film on You Tube.

With her book ‘Bottlemania’, author Elizabeth Royte investigates one of the biggest marketing cons of the last century and demands a sudden environmental alarm. She asks the situations we must at some point understand. Who has ownership of the water distribution? What could happen when a bottled-water corporation holds your town’s water source? Is the water coming out of a tap completely safe? What is really the environmental cost of producing, transportation and waste of a single plastic water bottle?

Politicians from everywhere around the international community are realising that they have to take action – markedly when the places at which they debate are high consumers of bottled water. How often do we see a politician at a conference drinking from a water bottle. Surely they can use 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 of Australia to cease the retail of bottled water. At least 60 townships in the States and a handful in Canada and the UK have now banned spending taxpayer funds on bottled water.

Surely this dilemma will be tabled come World Water Week 2010 from September 5 to 11 in Stockholm, Sweden, the annual meeting for the planet’s most problematic water-related issues.

Article written by Tracey Bailey, founder of Biome Eco Stores.

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