Tapped (2009) on Netflix
NR20091h 16mDocumentary
Tapped asks whether clean water is a human right or a commodity to be bought and sold. It follows the bottled water industry and a town that hosts a Nestlé factory.
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Clean drinking water sits at the center of a fight over whether it belongs to everyone or to whoever can buy and sell it. Tapped examines the bottled water business and its effects in social, economic and ecological terms. A town that hosts a Nestlé factory and tests run on the bottles the company uses are part of the account, and the tests turned up potentially harmful chemicals, including known carcinogens. Also traced is what happens after the cap comes off: forty percent of what is sold is filtered tap water, and thirty million single-serve bottles are thrown out each day as plastic waste. The trail runs from plastic production to the ocean, and the people along it are caught between corporate interests and the public's claim to clean water.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Tapped (2009)
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- Nestlé Waters North America CEO Kim Jeffery defended his company's bottles after the documentary's tests found chemicals, saying bisphenol A was also present in the liners of all canned foods and in the DVDs of the documentary itself.
