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dogears · 01-25-2009, 03:39 PM

I don't ANYMORE after watching the movie Flow FLOW. If you have not seen the movie please take the time to watch it. I got mine from Netflix. Here is the trailer Trailer | FLOW

The basis of the movie is the privatization of water. How can you charge a community of people for water?

ITS FREE, just like air.

In addition to the madness of privatization of water the movie explores the bottled water industry (we spend three times as much for bottled water, then the amount it would cost to provide EVERYONE in the world with clean drinking water.)

In my book that is a problem. Also it was found after testing several brands of water that some were only tap water, some had hazardous chemicals-such as Arsenic in them, and more often then not the label was a flat out lie. As the bottled water industry is not regulated.

The last time I checked it was a CRIME to give someone arsenic. So how is it that these multi-billion dollar companies can feed millions of people arsenic EVERYDAY (and its a known fact) and nothing happens to them???

FYI: Nestle (yes that chocolate bunny from childhood) who by the way owns over 70 bottle water companies makes around $1.8 million a day in profits off water they TOOK from a Michigan community. So they went into this community took the water therefore slowly but surely drying up the water supply, bottle it, and sell it back to the people in that same community and around the world.

FYI: Atrizine a herbicide used here in the US is #1 contaminant in water. And it is a known hormonal disrupter. The irony: the European company that supplies us with this chemical CANNOT use it in their own country because it has been BANNED

Please sign the petition to add article 31 to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights stating that access to clean water is a human right.
Article 31: The Right to Water

Watch the movie and pass it on that others may become aware.

Nikki+2 · 01-26-2009, 06:32 AM

Thanks for posting the links- I'm going to read them in a bit. Some of what you've posted I've heard but more details are always great. I haven't seen the movie either.

To answer your question I do not drink bottled water. I used to but in more recent times it's been pointed out how we our jamming our landfills with zillions of plastic bottles. There are so many reusable and safe bottles now that there's just no reason to buy the plastic. I used to use a Brita water pitcher but now I just use the filtered water from out refrigerator. Most tap water is not bad and as you pointed out bottled water is not necessarily better. I think we've been sort of convinced tap water is awful by the bottled water industry.

TatumsMom · 01-26-2009, 06:45 AM

Luckily we live in the country and have pretty great well water. I will buy a case of bottled water and then wash and refill them with our tap/well water for a good while. Mostly do that just for the convenience of the bottles. Maybe there are "risks" regarding reusing the bottles but I think we'll live!

I just know I couldn't afford to buy the amount of bottle waters that we actually go through and I'd rather the water get consumed than sodas and such.

I'll have to check out that movie.

Yorkiekids · 01-26-2009, 08:23 AM

I have read about a lot of the same things you stated, so unless I'm dying of thirst, and away from home I stay away from bottled water.

kdlmon · 01-26-2009, 09:21 PM

Thanks for this post! I plan on seeing the movie soon. When I receive my water bill it actually warns us NOT to drink the water. We bought a purifier and were told it would be useless unless we go new pipes. So I have to buy bottled water. I HATE the fact that I have to buy my water.

chloesMama · 01-26-2009, 10:25 PM

I don't know if it's my imagination but I don't like the taste of tap water . I drink alot of water a day and I want to enjoy it , so we buy bottled water. Fiji and Deerpark taste good to me , so if I'm getting fooled....don't tell me

We do recycle the bottles and dh wants to order a water dispenser so we can just get the jugs delivered and not have to buy the bottles anymore.

I remember being a kid and drinking from the hose outback on a hot summer day and loving it . I didn't find the taste bad at all...now I don't think I would do it ....but my kids love to drink from the hose in the summertime...It must be a kid thing

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DvlshAngel985 · 01-26-2009, 11:49 PM

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Originally Posted by chloesMama

I don't know if it's my imagination but I don't like the taste of tap water . I drink alot of water a day and I want to enjoy it , so we buy bottled water. Fiji and Deerpark taste good to me , so if I'm getting fooled....don't tell me

We do recycle the bottles and dh wants to order a water dispenser so we can just get the jugs delivered and not have to buy the bottles anymore.

I remember being a kid and drinking from the hose outback on a hot summer day and loving it . I didn't find the taste bad at all...now I don't think I would do it ....but my kids love to drink from the hose in the summertime...It must be a kid thing

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I completely understand!! I too find a difference in taste, maybe we're just weird

I take all my bottles to recycling and I beleive arrowhead also uses recycled plastic. (at least I hope they do!!!)

msjagg · 01-26-2009, 11:58 PM

I drink only Caffeine Free Diet Coke!! We have a Brita water filter and pitcher in the refridge. If the family is out and gets thirsty they will get bottled water!! I give the animals filtered water @ home too!! The plastic bottles last in landfills forever...

rayray08 · 01-27-2009, 02:26 PM

Sadly, I use water bottles. Tatums Mom I'm with you on re-using water bottles. I can wash them out and reuse them all the time... nothings happened to me yet. I think it's bacteria build up, but who knows.

Anyway, I should just buy one of those reusable ones, since we have water bottle jugs that give delivered.

I'll be watching that video soon, gotta get back to some school work!

rayray08 · 01-27-2009, 02:28 PM

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Originally Posted by msjagg

I drink only Caffeine Free Diet Coke!! We have a Brita water filter and pitcher in the refridge. If the family is out and gets thirsty they will get bottled water!! I give the animals filtered water @ home too!! The plastic bottles last in landfills forever...

That made me laugh! You remind me of my co-worker I was talking to and she said "Rachel, I don't drink water, I only drink Diet Coke gosh!!". LOL

Miao · 01-27-2009, 02:47 PM

I've been guilty of drinking bottled water and I don't like plastic, so I end up drinking sparkling mineral water whenever I can't find a brand that does it in glass flat and also when I need it to wash down food. Sparkling works better. But I've only been able to find distilled water in plastic for my yorkie and I'm worried about cancer, etc, but figured maybe it takes longer exposure for that stuff to kill us--longer than a dog's life span.

We try to recycle when we can.

I had grown up drinking tap water and loved it. But these days it seems to get dirtier or less predictable. I have also been traumatized by a restaurant that served dirty yellowed dish water in a glass for dinner.

I even questioned the judgment of my bf of the time. I said, no way, it doesn't look "off". The dining room was dimly lit and MY water was fine

. At a glance, before taking a sip, I didn't notice the yellow tinge to the water.

Served me right for doubting him as I tasted it to verify. Oh, also, the insect that was frozen inside of an ice cube at a restaurant we were eating at 2 years back... I still do drink tap, still forget to tell them "no ice" but I'd prefer "hot water" over regular tap depending on the source as many establishments have a filtering system, though not all.

C C Kent · 01-27-2009, 05:40 PM

Regulations governing the safety and content of public water supplies are much more stringent than those governing bottled water or soft drinks. If your tap water tastes funny try setting it out with the top uncovered until the solved gases escape and then drinking, bet it's better than before.

We are the most marketed-to society in the history of the planet. The marketing program that convinced us not to trust our municipal water supply but to trust a bottling company was nothing less than sheer genius. A ridiculous premise but very well executed. It relies on the fact that we are suckers for a self image that we want to project. And we'll pay twenty bucks a gallon to project it... Remember the original bottled water Evian? Spelled backwards? Naive ....

The same minds that put that plan together are making billions per year from the notion that we can control the climate. This is a tremendous undertaking because they first must convince us that it's broken, actually that it will be, and only they have the means to prevent catastrophe. This they have almost accomplished because it's now very politically correct and cool to accept this premise. So much so that anyone who doesn't accept it is to be berated and belittled with holocaust terms like "Denier" (very tolerant and free speech like). Then they must convince us that it's our fault! In order to do this they must convince us that the "Medieval Warm Period" and similar spontaneous and extended climate change events should not be taken into consideration, because that one inconvenient truth (heh heh) puts the whole theory to question since the industrial revolution wouldn't happen for 600 years. And that natural events like the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo, and Mt. St. Helens, which together dumped more sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere than the first one hundred years of industrial revolution combined, and did it in the space of hours rather than decades is to be excluded from the studies.Why? because they didn't bring about the predicted catastrophic event, the earth adjusted to the event and cleaned it up. We didn't cause it and we couldn't fix it...hard to turn a profit on that.

Given the enormous profit generated by selling us preposterous ideas why wouldn't they use fear of local municipal water to distract us from the real purpose which is to sell us a resource we already own. The only thing more profitable would to be selling "carbon dioxide credits", at least they don't contribute to landfill.

We should definitely hold corporations, countries, mankind as a whole accountable for pollution, cleaning up each and every mess they make, and being good stewards of the private resources they use when the good of the public is affected. I love this planet and think we should be very protective of our resources. I don't, however, think we should check our critical thinking skills at the door and let the next wave of charlatan empty our wallets and restrict our freedom. JMHO

MeganS · 01-27-2009, 08:00 PM

Hmm! That's very interesting! Thanks for posting that and sharing this with us. I had never heard of it. I have heard that a lot of water companies do lie. I thought I heard that Poland Spring is pretty much one of the only ones you can trust, but I'm not sure???

To answer the question...yes. I drink bottled water compusively. Easilyyy 3-4 bottles a day. But as long as you recycle them...don't they just get...recycled? Then they won't end up in a landfill?

DvlshAngel985 · 01-27-2009, 11:49 PM

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Originally Posted by MeganS

Hmm! That's very interesting! Thanks for posting that and sharing this with us. I had never heard of it. I have heard that a lot of water companies do lie. I thought I heard that Poland Spring is pretty much one of the only ones you can trust, but I'm not sure???

To answer the question...yes. I drink bottled water compusively. Easilyyy 3-4 bottles a day. But as long as you recycle them...don't they just get...recycled? Then they won't end up in a landfill?

That's what I thought too!! If I take the bottles to get recycled then they will be turned into something else. At least I hope so.

hviola · 01-28-2009, 10:20 AM

I live in a small town and the water here tastes terrible! It tastes like metal and pool water. The water is "safe". At least thats what city hall told me when I complained. So, I buy gallon jugs of water to drink at home. I still use the tap water for cooking, but I boil it first, so that weird taste isn't in my food.

And about the Diet sodas, I won't touch artificial sweeteners with a 10 foot pole. They can cause a lot of health problems too. I watched a documentary done by a local group of doctors about this and saw all the sick people in it and how much their condition improves after quitting diet soda/drinks. I mean if one stick of gum with Xylitol can kill a dog, think about what it can do to a person. JMO.

01-26-2009, 06:32 AM	#2
Nikki+2 I heart Sugar Donating Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Florida Posts: 7,373	Thanks for posting the links- I'm going to read them in a bit. Some of what you've posted I've heard but more details are always great. I haven't seen the movie either. To answer your question I do not drink bottled water. I used to but in more recent times it's been pointed out how we our jamming our landfills with zillions of plastic bottles. There are so many reusable and safe bottles now that there's just no reason to buy the plastic. I used to use a Brita water pitcher but now I just use the filtered water from out refrigerator. Most tap water is not bad and as you pointed out bottled water is not necessarily better. I think we've been sort of convinced tap water is awful by the bottled water industry. __________________ "If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men." — St. Francis of Assisi, 1181-1226

01-26-2009, 06:45 AM	#3
TatumsMom Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: TX Posts: 2,799	Luckily we live in the country and have pretty great well water. I will buy a case of bottled water and then wash and refill them with our tap/well water for a good while. Mostly do that just for the convenience of the bottles. Maybe there are "risks" regarding reusing the bottles but I think we'll live! I just know I couldn't afford to buy the amount of bottle waters that we actually go through and I'd rather the water get consumed than sodas and such. I'll have to check out that movie. __________________ ~ Angie

01-26-2009, 08:23 AM	#4
Yorkiekids Piper & Sebastian Donating Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: florida Posts: 14,495	I have read about a lot of the same things you stated, so unless I'm dying of thirst, and away from home I stay away from bottled water. __________________ Susan, Piper ,Harley & Suiki

01-26-2009, 09:21 PM	#5
kdlmon ☺Cooper☺ Donating Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Bay Area, California Posts: 775	Thanks for this post! I plan on seeing the movie soon. When I receive my water bill it actually warns us NOT to drink the water. We bought a purifier and were told it would be useless unless we go new pipes. So I have to buy bottled water. I HATE the fact that I have to buy my water. __________________ Cooper RIP Austin 1999-2011 Member of the Yorkie Moms Who Love Baseball Club: Go Giants!

01-26-2009, 10:25 PM	#6
chloesMama YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: here :) Posts: 1,182	I don't know if it's my imagination but I don't like the taste of tap water . I drink alot of water a day and I want to enjoy it , so we buy bottled water. Fiji and Deerpark taste good to me , so if I'm getting fooled....don't tell me We do recycle the bottles and dh wants to order a water dispenser so we can just get the jugs delivered and not have to buy the bottles anymore. I remember being a kid and drinking from the hose outback on a hot summer day and loving it . I didn't find the taste bad at all...now I don't think I would do it ....but my kids love to drink from the hose in the summertime...It must be a kid thing. __________________ *Chloe & Sydney* Last edited by chloesMama; 01-26-2009 at 10:26 PM.

01-25-2009, 03:39 PM	#1
dogears Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Charlotte, nc Posts: 555	Do you drink bottled water? I don't ANYMORE after watching the movie Flow FLOW. If you have not seen the movie please take the time to watch it. I got mine from Netflix. Here is the trailer Trailer \| FLOW The basis of the movie is the privatization of water. How can you charge a community of people for water? ITS FREE, just like air. In addition to the madness of privatization of water the movie explores the bottled water industry (we spend three times as much for bottled water, then the amount it would cost to provide EVERYONE in the world with clean drinking water.) In my book that is a problem. Also it was found after testing several brands of water that some were only tap water, some had hazardous chemicals-such as Arsenic in them, and more often then not the label was a flat out lie. As the bottled water industry is not regulated. The last time I checked it was a CRIME to give someone arsenic. So how is it that these multi-billion dollar companies can feed millions of people arsenic EVERYDAY (and its a known fact) and nothing happens to them??? FYI: Nestle (yes that chocolate bunny from childhood) who by the way owns over 70 bottle water companies makes around $1.8 million a day in profits off water they TOOK from a Michigan community. So they went into this community took the water therefore slowly but surely drying up the water supply, bottle it, and sell it back to the people in that same community and around the world. FYI: Atrizine a herbicide used here in the US is #1 contaminant in water. And it is a known hormonal disrupter. The irony: the European company that supplies us with this chemical CANNOT use it in their own country because it has been BANNED Please sign the petition to add article 31 to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights stating that access to clean water is a human right. Article 31: The Right to Water Watch the movie and pass it on that others may become aware.

01-26-2009, 11:58 PM	#8
msjagg YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Lancaster, PA. U.S.A. Posts: 1,449	I drink only Caffeine Free Diet Coke!! We have a Brita water filter and pitcher in the refridge. If the family is out and gets thirsty they will get bottled water!! I give the animals filtered water @ home too!! The plastic bottles last in landfills forever... __________________ Jodi G. Mum to : -Sammy,:-Baron Georg, :-Sophie Kennedy, and Carys Bella...

01-27-2009, 02:26 PM	#9
rayray08 YT Addict Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Bay Area, California Posts: 464	Sadly, I use water bottles. Tatums Mom I'm with you on re-using water bottles. I can wash them out and reuse them all the time... nothings happened to me yet. I think it's bacteria build up, but who knows. Anyway, I should just buy one of those reusable ones, since we have water bottle jugs that give delivered. I'll be watching that video soon, gotta get back to some school work! __________________ Rachel and Mahina

01-27-2009, 02:47 PM	#11
Miao No Longer a Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Savage Garden Posts: 1,147	I've been guilty of drinking bottled water and I don't like plastic, so I end up drinking sparkling mineral water whenever I can't find a brand that does it in glass flat and also when I need it to wash down food. Sparkling works better. But I've only been able to find distilled water in plastic for my yorkie and I'm worried about cancer, etc, but figured maybe it takes longer exposure for that stuff to kill us--longer than a dog's life span. We try to recycle when we can. I had grown up drinking tap water and loved it. But these days it seems to get dirtier or less predictable. I have also been traumatized by a restaurant that served dirty yellowed dish water in a glass for dinner. I even questioned the judgment of my bf of the time. I said, no way, it doesn't look "off". The dining room was dimly lit and MY water was fine . At a glance, before taking a sip, I didn't notice the yellow tinge to the water. Served me right for doubting him as I tasted it to verify. Oh, also, the insect that was frozen inside of an ice cube at a restaurant we were eating at 2 years back... I still do drink tap, still forget to tell them "no ice" but I'd prefer "hot water" over regular tap depending on the source as many establishments have a filtering system, though not all.

01-27-2009, 05:40 PM	#12
C C Kent YT Addict Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Missouri Ozarks Posts: 452	Regulations governing the safety and content of public water supplies are much more stringent than those governing bottled water or soft drinks. If your tap water tastes funny try setting it out with the top uncovered until the solved gases escape and then drinking, bet it's better than before. We are the most marketed-to society in the history of the planet. The marketing program that convinced us not to trust our municipal water supply but to trust a bottling company was nothing less than sheer genius. A ridiculous premise but very well executed. It relies on the fact that we are suckers for a self image that we want to project. And we'll pay twenty bucks a gallon to project it... Remember the original bottled water Evian? Spelled backwards? Naive .... The same minds that put that plan together are making billions per year from the notion that we can control the climate. This is a tremendous undertaking because they first must convince us that it's broken, actually that it will be, and only they have the means to prevent catastrophe. This they have almost accomplished because it's now very politically correct and cool to accept this premise. So much so that anyone who doesn't accept it is to be berated and belittled with holocaust terms like "Denier" (very tolerant and free speech like). Then they must convince us that it's our fault! In order to do this they must convince us that the "Medieval Warm Period" and similar spontaneous and extended climate change events should not be taken into consideration, because that one inconvenient truth (heh heh) puts the whole theory to question since the industrial revolution wouldn't happen for 600 years. And that natural events like the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo, and Mt. St. Helens, which together dumped more sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere than the first one hundred years of industrial revolution combined, and did it in the space of hours rather than decades is to be excluded from the studies.Why? because they didn't bring about the predicted catastrophic event, the earth adjusted to the event and cleaned it up. We didn't cause it and we couldn't fix it...hard to turn a profit on that. Given the enormous profit generated by selling us preposterous ideas why wouldn't they use fear of local municipal water to distract us from the real purpose which is to sell us a resource we already own. The only thing more profitable would to be selling "carbon dioxide credits", at least they don't contribute to landfill. We should definitely hold corporations, countries, mankind as a whole accountable for pollution, cleaning up each and every mess they make, and being good stewards of the private resources they use when the good of the public is affected. I love this planet and think we should be very protective of our resources. I don't, however, think we should check our critical thinking skills at the door and let the next wave of charlatan empty our wallets and restrict our freedom. JMHO __________________ Paris Sophie Bogus Maximus Chezzer Macy Gissimo

01-27-2009, 08:00 PM	#13
MeganS Donating YT 7000 Club Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: New Jersey Posts: 12,016 Blog Entries: 1	Hmm! That's very interesting! Thanks for posting that and sharing this with us. I had never heard of it. I have heard that a lot of water companies do lie. I thought I heard that Poland Spring is pretty much one of the only ones you can trust, but I'm not sure??? To answer the question...yes. I drink bottled water compusively. Easilyyy 3-4 bottles a day. But as long as you recycle them...don't they just get...recycled? Then they won't end up in a landfill? __________________ Megan "I have my dreams, I have made plans." - The Pirate Queen All Gave Some; Some Gave All

01-28-2009, 10:20 AM	#15
hviola YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Casey, IL Posts: 1,175	I live in a small town and the water here tastes terrible! It tastes like metal and pool water. The water is "safe". At least thats what city hall told me when I complained. So, I buy gallon jugs of water to drink at home. I still use the tap water for cooking, but I boil it first, so that weird taste isn't in my food. And about the Diet sodas, I won't touch artificial sweeteners with a 10 foot pole. They can cause a lot of health problems too. I watched a documentary done by a local group of doctors about this and saw all the sick people in it and how much their condition improves after quitting diet soda/drinks. I mean if one stick of gum with Xylitol can kill a dog, think about what it can do to a person. JMO. __________________ Heather, mommy to Drake (7 yr old son), Triss (yorkie), spike (dachshund), ash and misty (my cats), and a baby on the way due Oct 1st!