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Tapped
Tapped
Stephanie Soechtig / Canada, USA / 2009 / 75 min.
Bottled water is the greatest advertising and marketing fraud in the world, says media analyst Barbara Lippert in Stephanie Soechtig's documentary. Quite simply, taking free drinking water, putting it into bottles, distributing it around the world and selling it back to people is an easy way to make money. At the same time, the film shows that the water in plastic bottles is often the same water that flows from the mains in all American households. The director also reveals how Nestlé, Pepsi Cola and Coca-Cola use legal loopholes to avoid paying taxes on their use of water and recycling, publishing the results of studies on the health and safety of their activity as well as taking moral responsibility for their business. A group of independent experts, activists and journalists also warn that bottled water doesn't just hurt our wallets. Plastic bottles contain substances that are harmful to human health. These can contribute to the incidence of cancer, infertility and other ailments. Moreover, the excessive use of water and the inadequate recycling of plastic are a threat to the environment.
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