{"id":5586,"date":"2008-09-13T20:07:24","date_gmt":"2008-09-14T04:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/discoveryfuel.com\/?p=5586"},"modified":"2012-05-01T13:54:43","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T21:54:43","slug":"bottled-water-the-jokes-on-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/2008\/09\/13\/bottled-water-the-jokes-on-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Bottled Water &#8211; The Joke&#8217;s On Us (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/storyofbottledwater.org\" dir=\"ltr\" href=\"http:\/\/storyofbottledwater.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">http:\/\/storyofbottledwater.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Story of Bottled Water, released on March 22, 2010 (World Water Day) employs the Story of Stuff style to tell the story of manufactured demand\u2014how you get Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week when it already flows from the tap. Over five minutes, the film explores the bottled water industry&#8217;s attacks on tap water and its use of seductive, environmental-themed advertising to cover up the mountains of plastic waste it produces. The film concludes with a call to take back the tap, not only by making a personal commitment to avoid bottled water, but by supporting investments in clean, available tap water for all.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH THIS GREAT VIDEO.<br \/>\nTHEN CONSIDER WHY YOU ARE BUYING BOTTLED WATER.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Story of Bottled Water\" width=\"1165\" height=\"655\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Se12y9hSOM0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-5586\" data-postid=\"5586\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-5586 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/storyofbottledwater.org The Story of Bottled Water, released on March 22, 2010 (World Water Day) employs the Story of Stuff style to tell the story of manufactured demand\u2014how you get Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week when it already flows from the tap. Over five minutes, the film explores [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7WmHn-1s6","builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5586"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5586"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8135,"href":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5586\/revisions\/8135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}