so, i saw this one on youtube, not a fancy quality at all but good enough. my days in slovakia, because of the people i met there, made me more green and aware of some eco things, and this was a nice documentary about the consequences and the business behind bottled water.
here at home, we have always drank water from the tap and sometimes it's hard to find a plastic bottle when i go on a journey or to dance classes - well, now it's not important because my father gave me a yellow water bottle that i carry everywhere.
however, when i moved to granada to live with two other girls, i understood there are people that ONLY drink bottled water. because we shared all the expenses, after our first big shopping, i had to pay for 5l of bottled water, although i didn't find any difference between that one and the tap water. this only lasted for one or two weeks, because we couldn't afford to pay for it, and it was really silly, the tap water was good!
it was funny watching this documentary although it only talks about the american reality - i have no idea how the bottled water business works in europe.
in a country so big, there is only one person responsible for the management of quality of bottled water, and that's not even her only function. so, what happens is the following:
- the companies like nestle, coca cola and pepsi go to the natural resources and pump the water for free, without paying anything to anyone.
- these companies do not have to make any quality reports and send them to some governmental department.
- all bottled water that circulates inside the state is NOT controlled - only water that crosses states' borders is.
- almost all bottled water in consumed inside the states.
- in their independent studies, chemists found the most incredible things in this bottled water, including cancerigenous substances.
- tap water is controlled circa 4000 times a year, bottled water is not.
- plus, there is the pollution behing the massive production of plastic bottles.
- a big quantity of bottled water is in fact, tap water and only recently were they obliged to put this information on the bottle.
crazy, hu?