"Story of Bottled Water" Video

After viewing the "Story of Stuff", we continued with another short clip titled the "Story of Bottled Water." I thought this video was both interesting and frustrating. Before watching the clip, I always felt skeptical about bottled water. Is bottled water cleaner and healthier than city tap water? Or, is bottled water just another corporate scam? As mentioned in the video, bottled water is actually less regulated than city tap water (a little scary), 2000 times more expensive than city tap water, less tasty (as discovered in research), and less sustainable. Using an economic mastermind plan, "Manufactured Demand", beverage companies were able to scare, seduce, and mislead people to purchase their bottled water. These companies campaigned their idea of bottled water and accused city tap water of being unsafe and "should be relegated to showers and washing dishes." Also, these same companies (Nestle) claimed that bottled water is environmentally friendly. To produce the bottles, oil is used in factories to produce plastic bottles, oil is used for exporting the bottles across the globe, and then the trashed bottles are either transported to "dumps" in poor undeveloped countries or incinerated, burning toxins into the air. Bottled water is by far one of the biggest scams and continues to be sold in schools, business buildings, grocery stores, etc. We need to come together and stop purchasing these products, as it harms the environment and other foreign civilizations.