{"id":697470,"date":"2010-03-22T10:05:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T14:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/green.yahoo.com\/blog\/greenpicks\/273\/new-video-the-story-of-bottled-water.html"},"modified":"2010-03-22T10:05:40","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T14:05:40","slug":"new-video-the-story-of-bottled-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/697470","title":{"rendered":"New video: The Story of Bottled Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image\" style=\"float: right; padding-left: 8px\">\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Story of Bottled Water\" height=\"243\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a323.yahoofs.com\/ymg\/greenpicks__2\/greenpicks-688758689-1269265076.jpg?resize=300%2C243\" width=\"300\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/><em>(Photo: Free Range Studios)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Nearly <a href=\"http:\/\/water.org\/learn-about-the-water-crisis\/facts\">1 billion people<\/a><br \/>\naround the world don&#8217;t have access to clean drinking water. Most Americans, on<br \/>\nthe other hand, have safe water flowing out of their kitchen taps 24 hours a<br \/>\nday, seven days a week. <\/p>\n<p>Yet we buy billions of bottles of water each year at a significantly<br \/>\nhigher price than we pay for tap. Why? \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Annie Leonard, the creator of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.storyofstuff.com\/\">The Story of Stuff<\/a><\/em>,<br \/>\ntackles this mystifying question with humor and insight in her latest short<br \/>\nfilm. <em>The Story of Bottled Water<\/em> delves<br \/>\ninto the reasons why Americans are willing to spend thousands of times more on<br \/>\nbottled water even though it isn&#8217;t necessarily any cleaner or tastier than tap.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Leonard attributes this to bottled water companies<br \/>\nsuccessfully &#8220;manufacturing demand&#8221; for their products by scaring consumers<br \/>\ninto thinking that it&#8217;s safer and more desirable than public water. She also adeptly<br \/>\nexplains the environmental impact of bottled water from extraction and<br \/>\nproduction through disposal without hitting you over the head with too much<br \/>\ninfo. <\/p>\n<p>Leonard&#8217;s solution? Stop buying bottled water unless your<br \/>\nwater is truly unhealthy. For those who want to do more, she suggests several<br \/>\nways to get active from lobbying your city officials to bring back drinking<br \/>\nfountains to working to ban bottled water by your school, company, or city. <\/p>\n<p>She ultimately makes an excellent point: Our money is better spent on<br \/>\nimproving our water systems or preventing pollution than on dealing with the<br \/>\nmountains of plastic bottles we throw out.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Photo: Free Range Studios) Nearly 1 billion people around the world don&#8217;t have access to clean drinking water. Most Americans, on the other hand, have safe water flowing out of their kitchen taps 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Yet we buy billions of bottles of water each year at a significantly higher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2499,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Vrw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}