And On the Seventh Day, the Lord Created...Bottled Water!

And the Lord was pleased with His creation, and called it Genesis!

Thanks to Gayle Leonard's Thirsty in Suburbia (again!) and a few other folks for alerting me to this.

If you're bored as I am right now, you might want to view this 'cool video' from Bottled Water Matters, The Inner Workings of a Bottled Water Plant.

On the other hand, it might be a good time to wash your hair or perform elective surgery on yourself; the video is over 11 minutes long. 

Bottled Water Matters is a coalition formed by the IBWA.

The video stars an easily-amused, comely young woman who does her best to feign interest and awe. Her tour guide is a grandfatherly, white-haired man who at times looks like the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd. Together, this unlikely duo escorts us around a bottled water plant, explaining and illustrating all the wonderful things that occur as ordinary spring water is mystically transformed into bottled water.  

If your thirst for corporate propaganda has not yet been slaked, you might try a more annoying but much shorter (3 minutes plus) video, The Real Story of Bottled Water, featuring a talking animated clay bottle who is apparently one of Gumby's helium-sucking, bulked-up relatives. 

Read a review from Ariel Schwartz at FastCompany.

For an opposing view, here is The Story of Bottled Water.

 "I'm always going to drink bottled water for the rest of my life!" -- awestruck teen in The Inner Workings of a Bottled Water Plant

Comments

[Michael]

Hi, Kat.

Thanks for your comment and kind words.

You love my blog, but you think I support bottled water? I am unsure how you reached that conclusion from this post. I was using sarcasm.

Check out my posts under the 'bottled water' category.

[Kat Oakley]

Love your blog but I think you may be a bit missinformed. Bottled water does hurt the environment. The process to get the water into the bottles hurts the environment. The bottles themselves, unless recycled, hurt the environment.

Read more about how to break the bottle habbit on my blog.

[Jesse]

Thanks for the videos. I really appreciate it.