Water - Tapped notes

Nestle, Coke, Pepsi - selling bottled water at ~1,900x the cost of tap water

Nestle - Poland Springs

Food & Water Watch

Freyburg, Maine - "Absolute Dominion" = biggest pump gets draw

Nestle: $0.06 - $0.11 / gallon to 'produce' vs.$6 / gallon to sell

Also in CO? - flash article title in film

Feb 2004 - Freyburg, Maine went 1.5 days without water

Dennis Kucinich: on-side --> imperative to protect water supplies for general public

Mark Twain: "Whiskey is for sippin' & water is for fightinn'..."

Ghandi: enough for need, not for greed.

Rep Earl Blumenauer - Oregon - on-side

1989 - PET bottles!

Nestle: Fiji

Aquafina - Pepsi

$1.5B business in 2007

"Safe, convenient, healthy, pure..."

International Bottled Water Association

tap water as competition...

--> Adrianna Quinterro - NRDC

--> Amanda Brown - Atlanta Magazine: Atlanta Coca-Cola 118M gallon draw in 2007

Aquafina & Dasani = tap water

PET/PETE use 714M gallons of oil/year (for bottles)

-80% of Nestle, Coke, Pepsi bottles

Flint Hills in Corpus Christi TX oil refinery

--> 84% higher birth defect rate vs TX overall

"sacrifice zones"

60-70% bottled water produced & consumed in-state --> no FDA oversight vs municipal water under EPA (Jane Houlihan @ EWG):

BPA - $7B/year industry

World 50% US 20% recycling rates

Container deposit legislation - "bottle bills"

-->11 states, but ONLY 6 include bottled water

Recycling rates:

50% of Americans = NO curbside recycling ~168B containers /year

Charles Moore - Algalita Foundation - 80M bottled water bottles / day; Americans bought 29B bottlesof water in 2007

"Away" = Camill (?) beach -- southern-most beach in US

holy crap:

1999 - 6x plastic/plankton

2008 - 46x plastic/plankton

--> poison for fish & invertebrates --> lantern fish = most common fish in ocean --> threatens entire marine food web

Invest in municipal water infrastructure

*What levers would you pull?

Jim Wilfong - Former Assistant Administrator, International Trade (Clinton Administration)