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Siflutter It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Usamah Harvey The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

ironhorse_iv The great debate of bottle water vs tap water got bottle up and release as a well-structured awe-inspiring documentary call Tapped. Directed by Stephanie Soechtig & Jason Lindsey, the movie shows the environmental injustice aspects of bottled water. While the movie is indeed one-sided, and can seem biased. The movie does give a chance for bottle water supporters to defend their product. It was deeply surprising to see representative from these big companies, as in most documentaries, they mostly refuse to speak. I do think, their interviews was edited a bit, to make them look dumbfounded to certain questioning or expose them as spin doctors. It was bit too trickery. The movie had a lot of good amount of evidence sources. The way, the documentary told it, through interviews, music, data/graphs, and video footage made watching the film, very entertaining. While, the movie did indeed had a bigger budget, there were little to no slow lectures parts, here. It's clear that tap water is indeed better for you than bottle water. The movie shows us why, but you can clearly go research it, yourself, and you find yourself with the same results as the movie. I think a lot of people need to watch this film, as one of the big reasons why people purchase bottled water is due to the old wives tales inaccuracies. These claims are often create by companies, to set fear into the public, so that the community would purchase overprice water, over nearly free drinking water. This is a great example how fear can somewhat dictate somebody's life. While, yes, there are some proved facts that some tap water in certain areas are contamination. For the most part, even for the low-income & minority households, tap water is deed safer than bottle water in developed countries like the US & Europe. Bottled water are believe to reduce amounts of copper, lead, and other metal contaminants since it does not run through the plumbing pipes where tap water is exposed to metal corrosion, however, this varies by the household and plumbing system. Bottle water often carry similar or worst off chemicals such as PET, PETE, and BPA (bisphenol A). Of these, BPA is the deadliest. This is because due to the lack of regulated by the company. It's not as regulated as often as tap water. One thing the film also forgot to mention is the alarming rate for bottled water in poorer developing countries. Sales of bottled water in Mexico, China, and parts of India, are rising steeply, due to fear of contaminated water. In my viewpoint, bottle water and tap water have the same health risk in those countries, due to the fact, that most bottle water are indeed tap water. While, I don't believe people that should buy bottle water, I do understand the reasons why certain people choice to. The lack of safe drinking water in certain areas should be the only reason to buy bottled water. Even so, I have to agree that plastic tax has be put into place to help recycled the plastic and stop wasteful trashing. Better yet, people should learn how to purification their own water supply, which the film also left off. The movie also left out, the religious questions of if the 'privatization" of water is ethical. One thing that the movie should explore more is the myth is the taste of water because it was one of the contributing factors to the marketing success of bottled water. Pure water has no taste. However minerals and impurities can alter or add to the taste, but it's not very noticeable. Most bottle waters misleads its consumers with this false advertising. While the movie gave a lot of information that can be useful for years to come. It's somewhat already dated. If you want more information about the debate of tap water over bottle water. Watch 2003's Penn & Teller episode on bottle waters to get more information about this. Also check out, 2008's Blue Gold: World Water Wars, 2010's Water on the table and 2008's Flow: For Love of Water. All of them are very good, and worth the time, watching. Overall: I would recommend this documentary to anyone willing to sit down, and think about their future. Indeed, water will play a big role in that.

robert-temple-1 This incredibly shocking documentary and the similar documentary BLUE GOLD (2008, see my review), made by a different team, need to be seen by anyone interested in whether the human species will survive. (One would think all humans would be interested in this question, but so stupid are some people, that they actually are not interested, which is perhaps why our survival is really under threat, namely that the human species contains such a very large proportion of idiots.) It used to be said of a boring person that he was 'like a long drink of water'. Well, the ways things are going, long drinks of water are going to be in such short supply that we'll never be able to use that expression again. This film, unlike BLUE GOLD, limits itself to the United States and the Pacific Ocean. The film shows in detail that public water is being taken by big corporations like Nestle, Coca-Cola, and Pepsi-Cola at the rate of millions of gallons per day, bottled, and then sold back to us as 'bottled water' at 10,000 times profit. And the idiot politicians who allow this seem to think it is OK, perhaps because their wallets have increased by 10,000 times as well for being 'friendly' to the ruthless corporations. The toothless, useless Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has only one member of staff working half-time on the regulation of bottled water production in America! 70% of all bottled water in the USA is sold within the same state, so does not come under federal jurisdiction anyway. The remaining 30% is required to be tested, but the test results are not required to be filed with the FDA or divulged to anyone, and can remain secret within the private files of the corporations. So while municipal free water supplies are tested sometimes as often as 400 times a day, bottled water is effectively never tested. It often contains dangerous chemicals and contaminants. Since 1989 when bottled water began to become available in plastic bottles, which are made from petroleum at refineries, the bottled water for sale has often been full of deadly carcinogenic chemicals leeching out of the plastic into the water. The main dangerous chemicals are PET, PETE, and BPA (bisphenol A). Of these, BPA is the deadliest. So what does this mean? It means that water which is free (70% of all bottled water in the USA comes from municipal free water supplies and not from springs or wells!) is taken in gigantic quantities by large corporations, bottled in poisonous plastic bottles, and then sold to the public at a huge profit under the phoney pretext that it is 'safe' (but if municipal water is 'unsafe', why is 70% of bottled 'safe' water merely 'unsafe water' in a poisonous bottle?). But that is not the end of the story. The bottles are then all thrown away and make their way onto beaches and into the oceans. This is billions of plastic bottles per year. The Pacific Ocean for instance has a huge area larger than Texas known as a gyre which is just a vast sea of plastic. Every ocean has at least one such gyre. All the fish and other wildlife (turtles, seabirds, etc.) of the oceans are being killed by the plastic. In other words, bottled water is now one of the greatest threats to the planet, but even more urgently, it is one of the greatest threats to people. Don't you think it would be ironic if the human species ceased to exist because of bottled water? Wouldn't that just be the funniest of all cosmic jokes? For a species as stupid as humans, this is only fitting, that they should die with neither a bang nor a whimper, but with a pathetic, feeble gurgle. This film was produced by the same people who made WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR? (2006). The directors of this one are Stephanie Soechtig and Jason Lindsey, both of whom also co-wrote it with Josh David. They clearly had a much bigger budget and team than the people who made BLUE GOLD. Both films and their DVD 'extras' need to be seen together. They do not duplicate, but rather they complement, each other. And I shall here add something which I included in my review of BLUE GOLD: As Ford Madox Ford said in the February, 1924, issue of The Transatlantic Review, of which he was editor: 'That one should stand by and observe without a note of warning the sure shadow of doom engulfing a civilisation would be to display an equanimity passing the power of most men.'

legendlength When I first came across this film on IMDb I was 90% sure it was going to be another biased documentary which was rated highly because of people agreeing with the position they took. But after reading the reviews that swore it was very unbiased and well-made I decided to watch it with interest.After viewing the first 10 minutes I could tell the reviews were absolutely wrong. This film is probably as biased as you could possibly get. Throughout the rest of the film one side is shown and the other constantly demonized.If you like to view both sides of an argument avoid this rubbish.

whirling-darkness I finished watching this movie less than an hour ago and I'm deeply touched by the information presented in it. The documentary is well structured and presents an overwhelming amount of evidence which will change the way anyone thinks about bottled and municipal water. Both the "manufacture" of the water itself, and also where the bottles come from, where they go after use and how they influence our lives while they're with us. I see this movie has only had one review and a few votes since it came on this site. That is a crying shame because this movie needs to be seen by every single person alive. The willful absence of major companies such as Coke, Pepsi and Nestle is extremely telling in light of all the material presented. One can only hope that the small voice of this film will be heard over the huge booming commercial machine that these and other companies represent in the popular media. If you haven't seen this movie, simply watch it. It's that good and the information is something everyone should know.