A lovely (if slightly sanctimonious) animated doco on how the bottled water industry has convinced us all to pay bucketloads for something we can get free
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The story of bottled water
A lovely (if slightly sanctimonious) animated doco on how the bottled water industry has convinced us all to pay bucketloads for something we can get free.
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One suggestion not in this video is to own a water filter. We have a Doulton attached to our tap for filtering the water at the point of delivery. Not reliant on the big infrastructure!
The only other issue I’ve seen is while travelling — it’s hard to be sure about the water in other countries but I’ve heard of some travellers carrying their own water purification devices. Just some thoughts!
They gloss over the use of fossil fuels as simply costing “more to ship it around the planet”. The infrastructure that provides us with tap water must be one of the most efficient delivery systems of anything – and it keeps thousands of trucks, driving millions of kilometres, off of the road. *raises a glass of Hunter Water’s finest*
One of the significant problems in regards to bottled water in which applies to virtually all liquids destined for human consumption is other than South Australia there is no refundable deposit on the bottle. Manufacturers and distributors should be required to reprocess and recycle the containers, with sufficient incentive for the user to return the container to a refund point, preferably the retailer which sells the product in the first place.
Unfortunately manufactured demand applies to products other than bottled water. It also applies to most consumer goods, especially clothing, household detergents including products, motor vehicles and fashion accessories where brand image in the eye of the consumer is dominant.
Due to the gullibility and stupidity of the majority of consumers these promotional tactics continued to work generation after generation.
Good video and up there with her original Story of Stuff. And a damn sight better researched than her ridiculous Story of Cap and Trade.
The only bottled water we drink here at home is soda water, and that’s all my fault to be honest I love my bickfords lime and soda.
Bottled plain water is ridiculous.
Dave
ps: does anyone know how the CO2 gets into bottled soda water? And do they still sell soda syphons? Maybe I’ll go get one of them instead of buying bottled carbonated water.
A personally observed aspect of the war in Afghanistan is that all drinking water is bottled with the resultant residual plastic bottles simply left….. everywhere.