Movies, Books, Politicians the Water Bottle is Under Siege

Bear a plastic water bottle to your own hazard; the wave of public perspective is forming away from you. From high rating documentaries, to books and politics, the biggest topic around is the problem of bottled water and the waste that the industry creates.

The processing, moving and waste of water in petrochemical plastic bottles consumes large waste of water alongside energy, and generates huge amounts of greenhouse gases and waste.

Director of the upcoming 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 Tapped crew are pushing the movie with an across-America roadshow, taking sponsorships from people to take down their water bottle abuse and taking their discarded plastic water bottle in exchange for a reusable stainless steel bottle. Download Tapped from Amazon or iTunes.

A short film ‘The Story of Bottled Water’ was released on World Water Day in March. From Annie Leonard of the critically acclaimed ‘The Story of Stuff’, this short film delves into the process that is behind swaying Americans into wasting around half a billion bottles of water each and every week, as opposed to a few cents cost for clean tap water. Find the film on You Tube.

With her book ‘Bottlemania’, writer Elizabeth Royte demonstrates one of the biggest marketing cons of the twentieth century and gives a powerful environmental alarm. She asks the red flags we must eventually understand. Who has ownership of our drinking water? What could happen when a bottled-water business seizes your town’s water supply? Is the water that comes out of the tap wholly safe? What is the environmental footprint of making, transporting and disposing of one plastic water bottle?

Politicians around the globe are beginning to realise that they must start the campaign – markedly when the buildings at which they work are major consumers of bottled water. How often do we witness a politician in a function drinking from a water bottle. Surely they might locate a water glass in Parliament House.

Leslie Samuelrich of Corporate Accountability International, claimed “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 stop the retail of bottled water. About 60 cities in the American states and a handful in Canada and the United Kingdom have lately stopped the spending of taxpayer funds on bottled water.

It is doubtless that this issue will be tabled come World Water Week 2010 from September 5 to 11 in Stockholm, Sweden, the annual meeting for the world’s most problematic water-related dilemmas.

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