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This award-winning documentary certainly blows the cap off the bottled water industry. Aside from the morality of turning drinking water into a commodity, it seems 40 percent of the frosty "product" is actually municipal tap water, bottled and sold at a huge markup. The focus here is on communities in Georgia, Maine, and North Carolina where multinational corporations are quietly pum...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Gr 9 Up—Focusing primarily on the bottled water industry, this award-winning documentary illustrates the far-reaching consequences, both local and Earth-wide, of the consumption of "manufactured" water. The film examines questions concerning who owns the water beneath the ground, who may profit from it, and at what cost. The often false claims of bottled water's purity and safety are scrutinized, and the health ramifications involved with the use of certain plastics in the...Log In or Sign Up to Read More