Tapped - A documentary about the negative effects of the bottled water industry
Last night on Tuesday, March 20 at 7:00pm, Furman’s Environmental Action Group (EAG) hosted the screening of Tapped, a highly influential documentary exposing the negative effects of bottled water companies.
Through the film, co-directors Stephanie Soechtig and Jason Lindsey reveal that water should be a right, not a big business product. From depriving communities to polluting the ocean, bottled water companies have significantly affected sustainability. They freely take a natural resource and sell it back for an excessive profit. They also advertise their water as something purer than tap, but in reality, “40 percent or more of bottled water is really just bottled tap water – sometimes further treated, sometimes not.” Information on the topic is not widely known because production is often self-regulated. It is Tapped filmmakers’ hope that more people become aware of this highly privatized, damaging industry.
Visit Tapped’s homepage for more information about the documentary.
Bottled water has downsides. We can live without it!
After the event, I asked Professor Bill Ranson of Furman University’s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences what he thought students seeing the film should take away from it. He responded by saying that he would like them “to get the message that there are a lot of downsides to bottled water, and that it is a product that, really, we can do without.” Dr. Ranson allows suggests that in reaction to the “downsides of bottled water” perhaps Furman could “ban the use of bottled water on campus.”
For more Tapped reactions, view photographs taken live at the event.
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