Here are some interesting links to update you on the the changing water scenario and citizen initiatives:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2215/t/8100/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=1410
Think Outside the Bottle is a campaign working to promote, protect and ensure public funding for our public water systems.
http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/water/bottled
Bottled water is not safer than tap water.
Image source:www.insidethebottle.org
http://www.insidethebottle.org/Bottled_Water_Industry.html
Public water systems are bottled water's biggest competitors. The expanding bottled water market erodes people's confidence in their public water systems, paving the way for higher prices and corporate control of our water resources.
http://water.org/water-crisis/water-facts/economics
Investment in safe drinking water and sanitation contributes to economic growth.
http://www.tappedthemovie.com
Tapped the movie illustrates the undeniable fact that bottled water is more of a behavioral issue than a necessity. Much of bottled water is indeed just filtered water.
http://www.storyofstuff.org/movies-all/story-of-bottled-water
The Story of Bottled Water employs the Story of Stuff style to tell the story of manufactured demand - how to get Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week when it already flows from the tap.
http://www.flowthefilm.com
Irena Salina's award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The World Water Crisis.
Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world's dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel.