The Story Of Bottled Water | Promoting Filtering Water At Home
The Story of Bottled Water is a short film by Anne Leonard that she released Thursday, which was World Water Day. In The story of Bottled Water, Leonard shows how corporations have convinced Americans to spend extra cash on half a billion bottles of water every week though most people in this country can get it for free. “Purified” bottled water has become a $ 5 billion-a-year industry in the U.S. and ironically threatens public health and the environment.
On World Water Day
In an article on huffingtonpost.com, Anne Leonard said she chose World Water Day to release the Story of Bottled Water because World Water Day is:
“a good day to pause and consider the insanity of a global economy where 1 billion people lack access to safe Drinking Water while other people spend billions on a bottled product that’s no cleaner, harms people and the environment and costs up to 2,000 times the price of tap water.”
Leonard, in The Story of Bottled Water, compares spending money on bottle water to buying a shrink-wrapped sandwich made by unknown hands costing $ 10,000. She blames multi-billion dollar marketing campaigns commissioned by industrial giants like Coca Cola and Pepsi and Nestle to make Americans afraid to drink tap water.
Bottled water contains toxic chemicals
Although people may believe that they are drinking purified water, The Story of Bottled Water points out that it is often times no safer than tap water. It could also be less safe. What can leach into the water inside are the toxic chemicals from the plastic in the bottle.
A report on mindfully.org states that Water bottles are made from various plastics, including Bisphenol-A (BPA), a chemical that leaches into the water in the bottles to some degree. Bisphenal-A, as it turns out, is a hormone disruptor that imitates estrogen and can help cause early onset puberty, declining sperm counts, obesity along with breast and prostate cancer. In March 2007 a billion-dollar class action suit was filed in Los Angeles against five leading manufacturers of baby bottles containing Bisphenal-A.
Filtered water at home
Leonard says that bottled water costs up to 2,000 times more than tap water, yet up to 40 percent of bottled water is simply filtered tap water. Consumers can filter water at home with products costing anywhere from $ 15 to $ 120. The Story of Bottled Water underlines many other facts about bottled water, many of which Leonard calls “inconvenient” truth:
- Bottled water is subject to fewer health regulations than tap water.
- Municipalities often need money loans to cover more than the $70 million it costs to landfill water bottles alone each year, according to Corporate Accountability International.
- Making the plastic water bottles used in the U.S. takes enough oil and energy to fuel a million cars, not including the fuel required to transport the bottles from the factory.
Use metal water bottles
The Story of Bottled Water shows a bright side to its argument, however.
Leonard states that fewer people are spending money now on bottled water – sales are showing a slight decline for the first time ever in 2009. More people are using reusable metal water bottles, passing on bottled water at the store and filtering their own water at home. Aluminum and steel water bottles cost anywhere between $ 5.95 and $ 19.95. Certainly beats a $ 10,000 sandwich.
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