The Story of Bottled Water

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The Story of Bottled Water, releasing March 22, 2010 on storyofbottledwater.org, employs the Story of Stuff style to tell the story of manufactured demand—how you get Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week when it already flows from the tap. Over seven minutes, the film explores the bottled water industry’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.

Our production partners on the bottled water film include five leading sustainability groups:

• Corporate Accountability International
• Environmental Working Group
• Food & Water Watch
• Pacific Institute
• Polaris Institute

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The Story of Bottled Water
Year: 2010
Length: 8:04mins

Written by Annie Leonard
Jonah Sachs
Louis Fox
Produced by Free Range Studios
Executive Producer Erica Priggen
Director Louis Fox
Camera Tim Kerns
Gaffer Charles Griswold
Sound Dan Gleich
Best Girl Lauren Stocker
Teleprompter Bill Buck
Hair/Make-Up Kathleen Gorga
Production Coordinator Wen Lee
Production Assistant Juliet Unfried
Animation Script Louis Fox
Ruben DeLuna
Animators Ruben DeLuna
Sarah Dungan
Ben Johnson
Editor
Mike Farley
Sound Design Ray Sutton
Project Manager Ben Hester

Website Designer ARG Studios
Website Developer Exygy
Flash Developer Todd Madere
Content Developer Jeff Conant

Story of Stuff Project Annie Leonard
Michael O’Heaney
Christina M. Samala
Allison Cook
Renee Shade

Viral Outreach Heidi Quante


Support provided by
Park Foundation, Inc
11th Hour Project

Content Advisors
Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute, Author, Bottled and Sold (Island Press)
Nick Guroff, Corporate Accountability International
Richard Girard, Polaris Institute
Renee Sharp, Environmental Working Group
Kate Fried, Food & Water Watch