{"id":195182,"date":"2021-09-20T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=195182"},"modified":"2025-01-10T15:06:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T15:06:02","slug":"the-story-of-bottled-water-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/09\/the-story-of-bottled-water-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story of Bottled Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/The-Story-of-Stuff-Project-logo.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-192890\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/The-Story-of-Stuff-Project-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>The Story of Bottled Water<\/em>, released on 22 Mar 2010 (World Water Day), employs the <em>Story of Stuff<\/em> style to tell the story of manufactured demand\u2014how you get people 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. It 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.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Se12y9hSOM0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story of manufactured demand\u2014how you get people to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every day 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[2672,232,2277,2276,1685,2673,1192],"class_list":["post-195182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips","tag-bottled-water","tag-capitalism","tag-commodification-of-water","tag-privatized-water","tag-water","tag-water-industry","tag-water-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284884,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195182\/revisions\/284884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}