"The Story of Bottled Water," a new video from Corporate Accountability International (watch video below), boils down the pitch from corporate water hucksters to, "You pay me a thousand times more for my product than you're paying now. I'll provide a less healthy product that also trashes the environment."
The basic point about this video, that bottled water is an environmentally damaging scam, is the subject of the diary by Patric Julliet.
The video spends a fair amount of time addressing Fiji Water in particular (and its misleading billboard dissing Cleveland's (quite good) tap water) in particular. Unfortunately, the video fails to mention Fiji Water's impact -- on the people of Fiji. Paying extra for bottled dictatorship doesn't sit very well on the palate, I would hope. Paying over $8 per gallon for the dubious privilege of stealing water out of the mouths of thirsty Fijians should leave an acrid aftertaste, don't you think?
More on Fijian human rights, the problems with Fiji Water, and what we can do about it, below.