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Tapped: The Film
This documentrary takes a look inside the big business of bottled water.
It will immediately change your thinking about the water you buy.
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Books:
Bottlemania: Big Business, Local Springs, and the Battle Over America's Drinking Water (Paperback) by Elizabeth Royte.
Royte plunges into America's mighty thirst for bottled water in an investigation of one of the greatest marketing coups of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. As tap water has become cleaner and better-tasting, the bottled water industry has exploded into a $60 billion business; consumers guzzle more high-priced designer water than milk or beer and spend billions on brands such as Pepsi's Aquafina and Coke's Dasani that are essentially processed municipal water.
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Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water (Hardcover) by Peter H. Gleick.
At what point, Gleick wonders, did water go from being something readily and freely available at any faucet in the land to a designer commodity marketed through multi-million-dollar ad budgets? Once found within steps of nearly every public building, park, and playground, how did water fountains suddenly become as rare as working pay phones? And with plastic bottles containing vitamin enhanced, oxygen enriched, or carbonated spring water carted around like so many new appendages, why are shoppers so enthusiastically embracing a practice that is both ecologically wasteful and economically reckless? Along with a discerning consumer's demand for accountability, freshwater expert Gleick trains his scientifically objective eye on the bottled water phenomenon to debunk dubious health claims, refute questionable purity standards, and expose environmental hazards associated with the unprecedented mania to purchase what used to be a free, pure, and plentiful natural resource. As landfills overflow with plastic bottles and aquifers drain, Gleick offers a sobering yet sensible look at society's ill-considered thirst for bottled water.
--From Booklist, Carol Haggas
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