From http://storyofbottledwater.org [2]:
The Story of Bottled Water, released on March 22, 2010 (World Water Day) employs the Story of Stuff style to tell the story of manufactured demand—how you get Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week when it already flows from the tap. Over five minutes, the film explores the bottled water industrys attacks on tap water and its use of seductive, environmental-themed advertising to cover up the mountains of plastic waste it produces. The film concludes with a call to take back the tap, not only by making a personal commitment to avoid bottled water, but by supporting investments in clean, available tap water for all.
Our production partners on the bottled water film include five leading sustainability groups: Corporate Accountability International, Environmental Working Group, Food & Water Watch, Pacific Institute, and Polaris Institute.
Links:
[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se12y9hSOM0
[2] http://www.youtube.com/redirect?username=storyofstuffproject&q=http%3A%2F%2Fstoryofbottledwater.org&video_id=Se12y9hSOM0&event=url_redirect&url_redirect=True&usg=TCj2h4-tPGXWHgjmYXhyr9sdUyk=
[3] http://rabble.ca/print/rabbletv/program-guide/2010/03/best-net/annie-leonard-story-bottled-water#comment-1126260
[4] http://rabble.ca/print/rabbletv/program-guide/2010/03/best-net/annie-leonard-story-bottled-water#comment-1128775
[5] http://rabble.ca/user
[6] http://rabble.ca/user/register
I'd never heard of this and I really enjoyed it :)
The public private health care debate has errily similar parallels. I like public services-we need more of them and they need to be properly funded-not kicked and starved out of existence so that we can hear "the private sector" buloney. The so-called consumer goods that we all want are so cheap they either don't work correctly when we first buy them or are dysfunctional 6 months later or both.
Cheers,
RR