Bottled water industry faces growing opposition

I am with you Jan. Water and clean air are a human right.

If I'm not mistaken, nestle bought the water rights in one of the southamerican country's already. HUH, something for me to look into to check my facts. Anyway,, greenlight. excellent post.

This pod is excellent, in that it focuses attention on yet another instance of the damage that can be done if corporations are not held in check. Do not doubt for a moment that if they could, they would buy the rights to the very air we breathe and charge us for it.

Good, shut em down.

I say, boycott them all.

nyingma13: I'm sure they will get around to that soon enough when they run out of resources to exploit.

It's still, unfortunately, all about money and increasing their bottom line... When will these large corporations realize that they should be investing in the people...that is the most valuable resource on the planet...

Drinking water bottled in plastic is stupid. People do it thinking they are getting clean safe spring water. Not much wrong with the water except it is just filtered overpriced water. The bottle on the other hand is plastic. "Toxic", and the softer it is the more toxic. This is one of the biggest scams going. Buy a filter for your faucet. Keep a glass pitcher of water in the refrigerator. Free after the initial filter, pitcher purchase.

It also shows how gullible so many people are to ad campaigns. The subliminal messages passed to people in these commercials are what activate the part of the brain emotionally rather than reasonably. i watched a water commercial where people were climbing a mountain, and even though it was a hot day the bottled water in their belt looked cold, crisp, and appetizing... of course, people watching this will be influenced by the images they see rather than thinking about the fact that it is refiltered tap water in a plastic bottle sitting in the same hot sun where chemicals from the bottle can mix with the water.

I remember back in high school my english teacher would comment on what a joke bottled water is and make some reference to bottling air. That was when the whole bottled water fad was just beginning. Since then the bottled water industry has exploded. I still think its a joke and almost never buy bottled water. Just another example of Americans being turned into consumer zombies. I'm glad that actions are being taken to limit bottled water production and consumption.

Bottle water, suffocate water.

Well said sapere_aude bottled water is on the same par with Starbucks. Either one is great example of Americans being turned into consumer Zombies. Incredible what you can get the American consumers to buy with the right promotion. How gullable can people be?

I can still remember when I was a kid growing up in the Sacramento Valley in California. It was damnably hot. Our water was from the Sierra Nevada Snow melt. Even in summer it was really cold out of the tap and wonderfully clean and tasty. Can't bottle that. I heard a radio personality visiting there and broadcasting commenting on how wonderful the water is the other day and could almost taste the water. Maybe we should work on cleaning our water supplies instead of bottling up fantasies?

We dont need no... pla-stic bot-tles.

dennet.... denet, denet, denet.....

Hey now, hold on, bottled water in plastic bottles is not in itself a bad idea. I think the trick is to use the plastic bottles in a responsible manner, such as reusing them and filling them with your own tap water... it's pretty simple really.

As for the companies looking to control water in an entire state, isn't it kind of redundant to say that a private company can't control it but the government can? Regardless of who controls the water don't people without access to their own wells still have to pay?

I live in the valley and the water isn't like it was when I was growing up. The amount of chlorine in it is bad. I haven't been able to drink water out of the tap for years. I admit that I buy bottled water, 6 gallon bottles. I have always drank a lot of water. I switched because of the taste of spring water. It really doesn't taste the same through a filtered tap. I see people drinking from many types of plastic bottles and I've heard that the problem is the plastic is leaking into the fluid. There's suppose to be a number on the bottle for recycling that tells how bad it can happen. I remember something on current about this.

Don't just stop your ignorance at plastic bottles hippocrites! what are your cell phones, computers and faucet filters made of?

Plastics make our life better and next time you use your cell phone think of me, yes Stephenthomas I can already hear you saying next time you take a crap you will think of me. . . . . .

Blah blah blah

God bless me
God bless big oil that made your computer possible

Hey! Smithers ! Leave that oil alone.

dennet, denet, denet.....

Mr. What is your job with Big Oil? We aren't drinking from our cell phones, or computers. Plastic is toxic and should never be used for food or drink containers. It should absolutely never be microwaved.

why drink bottled water when it comes out of the tap for (relatively) free? as other posters have stated, buying bottled water is one representation of american consumerism at its worst.

at my job we give out plastic bottles on a daily basis, and they STILL do not recycle them nor paper, PATHETIC