Tapped is a documentary about the bottled water industry and how certain companies such as Nestle are taking advantage of the resource and the citizens of not only America but of the surrounding communities of these springs and oil refineries. This is a scary situation because it gives the power of controlling of water to a select few companies and allows them to distribute it as they please. It is noted in the film that if this distribution continues to take place, by the year 2030 nearly 2/3 of the world’s population will be lacking aces to clean drinking water. Water is beginning to be looked at as a commodity, much like gas is, thus leading to exploitation of the resource. This is wrong in many ways because water is a necessity of life …show more content…
This is obviously not the case. Bottled water is essentially just municipal tap water that is being sold back to us. Also the plastic that the bottled water is being sold in is being made in chemical plants in the form of paraxylene, which is in the benzene family. The Benzene family causes cancers. Therefore the fact that they are saying that bottled water is “safe” is obviously a contradiction. They will continue to get away with this however because the FDA does not regulate bottled water nearly as much as it regulates municipal tap water. Also note that bottled water companies do not have to report their reports of what is in the water to the FDA if it is bottled and sold in the same state. Municipal tap water is tested multiple times per day whereas bottled water is only tested by a single person at the FDA. When bottled water was put under testing, many results came back shoeing positive testing for agents that have adverse reproduction outcomes. States have implemented recycle return rates to increase the recycle return rates. The higher the return rate the higher the percentage of bottles got returned. Most plastic that is thrown away ends up in the ocean and on a beach. The Pacific Ocean is getting the worst of this because it is getting the trash from asia and the west coast of North