Last class we watched the documentary movie "Tapped" which enlightened us about the grave reality that plastic bottles and mainly plastic bottled water cause probably one of the worst pollution and possible health problems to our environment. Mainly the movie introduced the viewer to the Nestle corporation's involvement in the water industry. Basically Nestle is going into small towns all across America and buying up land to drill for wells so they can extract the water for close to no cost, then bottle it and sell it for anywhere from one to four dollars a bottle. In 2008 bottled water sales was a 3.5 billion dollar industry in America and it is a $800 billion world market. The giant water corporations can get away with exploiting the water supply because ground water is under a different jurisdiction than lakes, rivers, and the oceans, and can be "owned" depending on what county in America. I found that one of the most profound quotes from the whole movie was that the water corporations like Pepsi, Coca Cola, and Nestle being able to "define control" of the water supply because they have the money to tell us what they are going to do with it. For example, in 2007 Coke was able to pull ground water 24/7 in a town in Georgia despite the fact that there was a drought and ALL the residents were under very strict water restriction laws and could barley even take showers. All bottled water is is tap water in a plastic bottle sold for 1,900 times the price. But there are also adverse affects of the chemicals and compounds in the plastic of the bottles, so you are paying for that too. Bottle water companies are able to find loop holes and create there own rules through the FDA (because 60%-70% of the bottled water is consumed in state and is not regulated by the FDA) and create the standards to actually create all the "safety tests" of their water. They actually conduct their own tests and tell the public all the chemicals in the bottles are fine for human contact and consumption, even though there clear and direct links to high rates of cancers in residents around the bottling plants all around the US. Another good quote I remembered was "when we as a society don't stick up for the vulnerable, then we as a nation become vulnerable." This is so true because we are starting to see the huge impact all around the world from the plastic bottle build up in our environment. There are actually concentration of plastic in the oceans water that the fish actually ingest and breathe in. The fish today have to swim with plastic soup in the water, EVERYWHERE! The best solution that the movie provided was that all the states in America adopt the Bottle Bills because there is a 70% return rate for the 5cent bottles, and a 90% return rate on the 10cent bottles. There are so many things we can do collectively and these bottle companies should practice more sustainable bottling and water extracting practices But most importantly is to remember to not buy bottled water and fill up your Clean Canteen.