Bottled Water: The Biggest Con of All Time?

Last night at the Floyd Country Store (and more at a new venue perhaps next year) we viewed the 38th movie in six and a half years of this SustainFloyd program of information-sharing (not to mention Pot Luck Suppers).

Some of these movies have lead to direct action within the community, others to targeted discussions in other organizations about environmental or community well-being issues; and most movies have shed a different light on some aspect of life on Earth that makes the viewer see the ordinary understandings–of things like cargo shipping, gas fracking, food waste–through a different lens.

The movie last evening was released in 2009. It paints a bleak picture and sounds a warning–and things have gotten worse since a decade ago. The threat to person and planet is water. Specifically, water taken from municipal sources or stolen from community commons and put in plastic, then made sexy by the same marketing psychology and massive money resources that promoted cigarettes.

This has to stop. And it will. Nature bats last. We are going into a late inning and are at bat. What will we do–in Floyd County, in our own neighborhoods, our own homes–to become part of the solution?

The discussion following the film heard more than one person saying “we should see to it that more people, and especially school-age kids, see this, know this, and act on this information.” Lives literally could depend on it, as more plastic microbits end up in sea creatures and our diet, not to even consider the toxins leaching from the plastic and commonly contained in the unregulated water inside the “spring water” from municipal big-city sources.

Links below let you view it on Amazon Prime; watch it free (in low quality with Spanish subtitles) on YouTube; and read a review of the health issues raised in the movie.

Amazon.com: Watch Tapped | Prime Video https://www.amazon.com/Tapped-Dennis-Kucinich/dp/B079TKTPDG/ref=sr_1_1?s=instant-video&ie=UTF8&qid=1544787544&sr=1-1&keywords=tapped

https://youtu.be/CadgGSVRZNo Watch full movie, low quality with Spanish subtitles

The Dangers in Your Drinking Water | Tapped: The Movie https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/09/26/why-is-water-the-next-empire.aspx