The Story of Bottled Water: Take back the tap (video)

Did you know that bottled water costs 2,000 times more than tap water, and that brands like Aquafina and Dasani are just filtered tap water? And talk about not being eco-friendly: The amount of oil and energy that goes into making the plastic water bottles every year could power a million cars. Not to mention, 80% of those bottles end up in landfills anyway.


Watch the video (below) and let's say no to bottled water and "take back the tap"!


(by the makers of The Story of Stuff), an informative short film about the bottled water industry, was released on World Water Day (March 22). It exposes the manufactured demand put upon consumers by the companies who produce bottled water by scaring, seducing, and misleading us into believing we should be buying bottled water over drinking from the tap.

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