Examines the role of the bottled water industry and its effects on our health, climate change, pollution, and our reliance on oil.
Documentary involving bottled water vs tap water.
Informative, but gets boring quickly. I found myself wanting to turn it off. I mean, bottled water it's bad, tap is good. What else do I need to know? But I am glad I sat through the film. The documentary does bring up some very interesting truths:
- 40% of bottled water is tap water
- 775 million gallons of oil to produce bottled water.
- Tap water is the natural "enemy" of bottled water
- Bottled water is not regulated by the fda
- They have their own inspectors
- Their records are not made available to the public.
- There is a lot, and I mean a lot of fucked up shit in bottled water.
- Bottled water companies do not transport across state lines. (This means they don't have to answer to the FDA.)
- Bottled water companies pump from one town in each state, and sell the water back to them
I'm sure that if they cut the towns in on the profits, this wouldn't be such a big issue. Money is an equalizer. Hush money tastes and feels much better. But here's the big question, "Will any of this cause me to not drink bottled water in the future?" Probably not. And I think that's where this documentary fucked up. It is true that bottled water is not good for anyone, however it is so readily available that I doubt people care. Especially given the fact that we have good reason not to trust tap water outside of our own homes.
Let's be real. Would you drink tap/fountain water if you saw this?
Out of Ten? 7
Although biased a bit, towards tap water (understandably), Tapped is pretty well done and offers up very interesting factoids about the bottled water industry and their mindset. If you're at all interested, this movie is currently available via Netflix Instant Watch.
Violence? No
Explosions? No
Nudity? No
someone sent me a link (please don't ask me where that link is today) to this video file that basically broke down bottled water vs tap water in about 5-7 minutes. probably the most informative 7 minutes of my life. so informative that i cut back on drinking bottled water significantly. and then i got an email recently (please don't ask me where this email is either) that shows all the little critters that are in water which we can't see with the naked eye. can't lie...i was DEFINITELY grossed out. with all that being said i've come to the conclusion that beer is now scientifically better then water
ReplyDeleteLmao @ beer is better than water. I'd ask you where your link is to confirm that last statement, but I'm sensing a pattern...
ReplyDeleteThing is, if we dive too deeply into all the things that we consume, we'd never eat.
very very true. bring back the old days where a little salt and certain amount of hear killed everything!
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