Monona Terrace: 'Tapped, the Movie'

Documentary Shows the Scary Side of Bottled Water
Madison Water and City Recycling Sponsor Free Screening of “Tapped, the Movie”
Monday, April 26
7 p.m., Monona Terrace

If you want to be healthy, buying bottled water is a good thing, right? Not really.

The documentary film “Tapped” shows just how scary the facts are about the bottled water industry and its frightening impacts on human health and human pain.

The Madison Water Utility and the Madison Streets and Recycling Utility are sponsoring a showing of this award-winning film by Stephanie Soechtig and the producers of films such as “Who Killed the Electric Car” and “I.O.U.S.A.,” on April 26 at 7 p.m. at Monona Terrace. There will be no admission charge to see this 76-minute film.

“Tapped” shows the truth about bottled water, taking a close look at America’s addiction to something that, as it turns out, is less healthy than tap water and rather downright dangerous to drink. It examines the role of the bottled water industry and its effects on our health, climate change, pollution, and our reliance on oil.

Along the way, “Tapped” examines the bottled water industry with stunning revelations. The bottled water business, in global terms, is an 800 billion dollar industry that thrives without many regulations. The FDA does little to examine or regulate the purity of bottled water. Bottlers, including industry leaders like Nestle, Coke, and Pepsi, use nearly 500 million gallons of oil to create the plastic bottles for the water and to transport them to supermarket shelves.

And to add to the problem, only 20 percent of such beverage containers in the U.S. are actually recycled. That means 60 million water bottles are land-filled daily in the US or over 22 BILLION every year. Since the bottles are made from petroleum and natural gas, this wastes a lot of energy and generates tons of destructive green house gases.

The film illustrates the history of how we got where we are and the undeniable fact that bottled water is more of a behavioral issue than a necessity, because much of bottled water is really just filtered tap water.

For more information or a copy of the “Tapped” poster, please call 266-9129 or 267-2626.