In this episode of ECO TRIP, presented by Subaru, David de Rothschild tests tap water in California, learns about the environmental hazards of plastic bottles and discovers a new clean water option for communities along the banks of the muddy Missouri River.
ECO TRIP – BOTTLED WATER premieres on Sundance Channel May 26 at 9pm. For more information on the subject of water options…keep reading!
Bottled water companies are constantly trying to set themselves apart in a market flooded with options. The latest to hit the shelves is BIOTA Rocky Mountain Spring Water, which is distributed in biodegradable plastic bottles made from corn.
In New York City, a local company is capitalizing on what has been called some of the best tap water in the country with Tap’dNY – tap water that’s filtered and distributed within the city. Tap’dNY encourages New Yorkers to drink straight from the tap and purchase local bottled water only when necessary.
Meanwhile, in Florida, the state budget proposal includes a 6-cent pergallon tax on all water drawn from aquifers by commercial bottlers, which could funnel up to $56 million into state coffers in the first year.
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San Francisco Bottled Water Ban
April 21st, 2009 - 9:14 am
It’s very cool with students get fired up about these issues and problem-solve on their campuses… their community. Connecticut College’s student group Water Action Now is working to ban bottled water on their campus and have done some research to help them figure out what it would take to win the student body over to tap water. However, apparently Coca Cola makes a contribution to colleges or universities along with it’s exclusive contract to sell its bottled water and other products on campus. Tough is the struggle to free a campus of bottled water products. Tougher is the double whammy of losing Coke’s financial “contributions.”
Eco-filmmaker Shalini Kantayya is touring college campuses now to discuss her futuristic film, A Drop of Life, and has some amazing reaction for students. http://tiny.cc/bgOXF
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May 27th, 2009 - 2:32 pm
Great idea, but the problem remains, and becomes worse.. It is still a plastic bottle. The bottle is made of oil from a renewable source. The renewable source, needs even more non-renewable oil to be grown. Corn farming uses enormous amounts of petroleum to be grown, from the fertilizers, to the fuel to transport, to the fuel needed to convert to plastic, and the carbon footprint left behind from the farming, and transporting of those plastic bottles of water that can be had locally. It is wonderful advance that this plastic is compostable, but it is not the final answer to this issue.