TAPPED THE MOVIE

Do you drink bottled water? tary is a behind-the-scenes look

Do you know people who drink into the unregulated and un-
bottled water? Watch this trailer seen world of an industry that
called “TAPPED.” It’s sad that aims to privatize and sell back
there is a generation of children the one resource that ought
being raised right now that only never to become a commodity:
knows bottled water. our water.
When I was growing up, no From the plastic production to
one drank bottled water. Some the ocean in which so many of
might have taken old milk jugs to these bottles end up, this inspir-
the grocery store to fill up for ing documentary trails the path
$0.25 from their filtered water. of the bottled water industry and
Perrier and Evian were the only the communities which were the
bottled waters you could buy. unwitting chips on the table. A
Then sometime in the late 80’s it powerful portrait of the lives
started catching on more and affected by the bottled water
more. At some point there was a industry, this revelatory film fea-
mindset projected on the popu- tures those caught at the inter-
lation that you were a bad per- section of big business and the
son if you didn’t drink bottled public’s right to water.
water.
www.tappedthefilm.com
Water is a precious commodity
– protect it – drink it – from the
tap. I know it’s hard to believe
here in the U.S. that there will be
wars fought for water, but there
will be. It’s the next oil.
Is access to clean drinking
water a basic human right, or a
commodity that should be
bought and sold like any other
article of commerce? Stephanie
Soechtig’s debut feature is an
unflinching examination of the
big business of bottled water.
From the producers of Who
Killed the Electric Car and
I.O.U.S.A., this timely documen-
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