QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Dec 1, 2010 -> 04:45 PM)
Watched something similar, Blue Gold. It was meh and kinda boring overall, but made good points about draining lakes and aquifers and shipping the water away to other regions. It is breaking the natural water cycles.
I will very rarely get a bottle of water at a gas station instead of a pop or something on a road trip, but I don't get the people with three or four 24-packs of bottled water at the grocery store. It's just ridiculously more expensive, the rest of the issues aside.
In Tapped they went over in detail how highly regulated actual tap water is, literally getting tested dozens of times per day, whereas there are almost no regulations for bottled water. Apparently bottled water is only tested if it's acquired in one state and sold in another. They mentioned that approximately 70% of bottled water is manufactured and sold within the same state so most of it doesn't get tested. They pulled a bunch of bottles right off the stores shelves, using various brands, and had them independently tested at 2 different labs and found all kinds of nasty things in them such as traces of benzene.
The movie delved into lots of other topics such as the BPA in the bottles used.