First they argue that bottled water is simply tap water, and comes from municipal sources. But then they argue that municipal water is tested heavily, while bottled water is unregulatd. If bottled water is just tap water, it would be regulated just like all of the municipal water. Am I missing something?
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You might want to watch it again. The water being pumped out of underground aquifers (like those in Maine at the beginning of the film) and taken to bottling facilities is definitely NOT municipal tap water. The film did mention a certain percentage of what comes from the ground as opposed to municipal sources, but I will have to watch it again myself to get that number.
shareYou're not, but they are. What you buy when you buy a bottle of water is convenience and confidence of quality. 2/3's of the earth is water. They say water costs more than gasoline? Gasoline doesn't fall from the sky. Junk science.
Pretty images.
More than 2/3's of the earth is water. However, only .606 % of that water is fresh water that is readily available for treatment and drinking. That number is decreasing as more and more natural aquifers are polluted by human refuse and our failing infrastructure.
Source:
A B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Actually fodder animals raised to produce meat make alot more refuse that gets into our waterways. Further their waste, unlike that of humans, does not have to be treated at all. In the USA there are about 6-10 billion land animals slaughtered yearly for food, they require more water, feed, resources and produce far more excrement than humans.
shareThe point is that these companies are taking tap water from communities for free and selling it at a certain cost.
shareThe film never claims that the water from municiple waters sources is dirty or bad for you but rather that your being sold water that already belongs to everyone.
Secondly when it states that the bottled water is bad it explains the reason, being that the chemicals involved in the production of the plastic bottle seep into the water.
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Yeah you are the only people on the board who actually paid attention to the movie.
shareTo answer your question directly (which nobody has yet done), you are correct that the film states that some bottled water starts out as tap water. As for whether that water is regulated, the important take-home point is that it is regulated very little or not at all *once it's put in the plastic bottle.* If there is a source of contaminants at the bottling factory, or if the bottle is leaching contaminants into the water after bottling, that is not likely to be addressed by the regulatory agencies.
shareYeah you are missing something like either having watched the documentary or an ability to discern what you were presented.
They argue that bottled water is most often tap water, however even when it is not, they just siphon water from public streams, denying the local public their use by depleting it fast and causing other problems like pollution, heavy truck traffic. When it is tap water, the bottling companies self-test the water, which is always less rigorous and often than municipal water.
They said 40% of bottled water comes from municipal tap water. The rest could come from groundwater or other sources. So if bottled water is untested/unregulated, it's a problem because we don't know if the other 60% is safe.
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