TAPPED: Documentary on Bottled Water

Do you drink bottled water? Do you know people who drink bottled water? Watch this trailer to the new doc called “TAPPED.”   I hate that there is a generation of children being raised right now that only knows bottled water.  WTF people – it’s called an immune system.  You’ll be okay if you drink tap water.  Really – you’ll live.  Your kids won’t be mutants.  Well – maybe they will from ingesting so much plastic from the bottled water. 

Yeah – I know – there are cons to municipal treated water as well, but I think the pros definitely out weigh the cons.  Let’s look at bottled water. Most of it comes in plastic bottles.  Plastic is made from oil.  Plastic leaches into the water.  A lot of bottled water is just repackaged tap water (i.e. Dasani and Aquafina). Water is heavy to ship, thus using more oil.  If you’re a fancy pants, you’re not drinking this “tap water.” You opt instead for Fiji water because it comes in a fancy square bottle and is shipped from Fiji (where a large percentage of islanders don’t have access to safe drinking water).  Perhaps you are even more fancy pants than that and you drink San Pelligrino.  Oooh…but glass recycles better than plastic and doesn’t leach.  Correct – but it’s heavy – damn heavy!  Oh…and it’s a Nestle brand…like they need another water brand.  Nestle is like the Phillip Morris of water.  San Pelligrino, Perrier, Vittel, Ice Mountain, Deer Park, Poland Spring, Deer Park, Zephyrhills, and of course, plain old Nestle. 

When I was growing up, no one drank bottled water.  Some might have taken old milk jugs to the grocery store to fill up for $0.25 from their filtered water.  Perrier and Evian were the only bottled waters you could buy. Then sometime in the late 80′s it started catching on more and more. At some point there was a mindset projected on the population that you were a bad person if you didn’t drink bottled water.  I just don’t understand it. 

Water is a precious commodity – protect it – drink it – from the tap.  I know it’s hard to believe here in the good old U.S. of A. that there will be wars fought for water, but there will be.  It’s the next oil, you know (which we need to package the water for you).  

Here’s your moment of Zen: