Jack Johnson may be one of the most authentically green artists out there. He has completely greened his tours and his concert rider requests things like recycling bins and biodiesel generators. When we made our bottled water documentary Tapped practically no one in the entertainment industry would appear in our film because they feared the backlash of the 3 biggest bottled water manufacturers - Nestle, Coke and Pepsi. That made it all the more meaningful when we got a call from Jack Johnson's camp saying he had seen our doc and wanted to host a screening in Hawaii and help us get the word out. But what's an endorsement by Jack Johnson if it doesn't include the infamous strumming of his guitar? We hope you'll share this little ditty Jack recorded for us with all your friends and urge them to take the pledge to Get Off the Bottle :
Gilbert M. Grosvenor: The Water Crisis
Tthe April 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine is a special edition devoted entirely to water. It's an essential primer on the state of the world's fresh water and it explores the global implications of the water crisis.
The movement to encourage consumers to drink tap water in place of bottled water is motivated by a desire to preserve natural resources, reduce pollution, and fix our nation's crumbling water pipes. When it comes to water choices, it's not about "political correctness" so much as about doing the right thing for the planet, your health and your wallet.
Moreover, the claim that bottled water is better regulated than tap water is simply untrue. The government requires testing of tap water up to 300 a times a month, while its rules for testing bottled water are significantly less strict.
Unfortunately, the bottled water industry has spent millions of dollars over the past two decades to make consumers think they need to buy a product that most can get for next to nothing from the taps inside their homes. You can read more about this in Food & Water Watch's new report, just released today: www.foodandwaterwatch.org/water/report/bluewashing-view-in-full/.
Wenonah Hauter
Executive Director, Food & Water Watch
The message is this... Stay Hydrated!!! But don't use plastic bottles to hold your water.
From story in LA Yoga magazine... (http://ow.ly/1prb9)
We are also finding out that water from plastic bottles can sometimes be worse for you than the water from your tap. The Environmental Working Group and the University of Iowa tested bottled water from several major brands and found an “array of chemical contaminants in every bottled water brand analyzed.â€
Scientists in Germany have found that plastic water bottles may also leach hormone-disrupting chemicals into the water, leading them to report that, “if you drink water from plastic bottles, you have a high probability of drinking estrogenic compounds.â€
On a gallon for gallon basis, bottled water is inspected for safety at least 30 times more than tap water. In addition, the FDA has a regulatory code of good manufacturing practices specific to bottled water as a packaged food product. In 2008 alone, there were over 450 FDA inspections of bottled water facilities.
Jack Johnson may be a terrific musician but is anti-hydration message is not going to win him many new fans.