TAPPED will make you think twice about bottled water
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? From the producers of “Who Killed the Electric Car?” and “I.O.U.S.A,” “Tapped”–the feature-film debut of TV documentarian Stephanie Soechtig–is a timely, behind-the-scenes look into the unregulated and unseen world of an industry that aims to privatize and sell back the one resource that ought never to become a commodity: our water. Making its DVD debut in an extras-laden edition, “Tapped” will be available to the environmentally-conscious and doc aficionados alike on August 10 for $19.98srp.
“Tapped illustrates quite clearly how we´ve been getting ‘soaked’ for years by the bottled water industry.”
– Ed Begley Jr.
A couple of eye-opening facts about the business of water in our country: each year, Americans buy 29 billion single-serve bottles of water. To transport that water, we use over 18 million barrels of oil. And, in 2007, water was an $11.5 billion business. From the production of petrochemical-based plastics to the fragile ocean in which so many of these bottles end up, this inspiring–and often shocking–documentary trails the path of the bottled water industry and the communities which were the unwitting chips on the table. A powerful and highly compelling portrait of the lives affected by the bottled water industry, this revelatory film features those caught at the intersection of big business and the public´s right to water.
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