Movies, Books, Politicians the Water Bottle is Under Siege
Take a plastic water bottle at your own hazard; the wave of widespread view is forming away from you. From top rating documentaries, to books and political debate, the biggest debate around is the terror that is bottled water and the waste that the industry forces.
The production, transportation and waste of water in petrochemical plastic bottles eats up tremendous amounts of water and energy, and generates ridiculous measures of greenhouse gases and waste.
Director of the hot new 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 crew of Tapped are promoting the film with their across-America roadshow, receiving donations from donors to take down their water bottle abuse and changing their used plastic water bottle for a reusable stainless steel bottle. Download Tapped from Amazon or iTunes.
Another such film ‘The Story of Bottled Water’ was released on World Water Day in March. By Annie Leonard of the well-received ‘The Story of Stuff’, this animated film delves into the method that amounts to convincing Americans into consuming at least five hundred million bottles of water every week, compared with a few cents cost for water from the tap. See the film on You Tube.
In her book ‘Bottlemania’, writer Elizabeth Royte chronicles one of the most massive marketing takeovers of the twentieth century and demands a powerful environmental alarm. She explores the red flags we must inevitably deal with. Who distributes the water distribution? What happens when a bottled-water corporation possesses your town’s water supply? Is the water that comes out of your tap entirely safe? What is really the environmental price of production, transportation and disposing of a single plastic water bottle?
Politicians all around the globe are realising that they need to take responsibility for action – particularly when the meetings where they collate are high consumers of bottled water. How often do we see a politician at a government function drinking from a water bottle. They should be able to use a water glass in Parliament House.
Leslie Samuelrich of Corporate Accountability International, told “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 sale of bottled water. At least 60 towns in the US and a handful in Canada and the UK have now stopped the expenditure of taxpayer money on bottled water.
Surely this problem will be brought to the table in World Water Week 2010 from September 5 to 11 in Stockholm, Sweden, the annual meeting for the planet’s most current water-related problems.
Article written by Tracey Bailey, founder of Biome Eco Stores.
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