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Take a plastic water bottle at your own risk; the pressure of widespread belief is going away from you. From high rating documentaries, to books and political campaigns, the hot debate around is the horror of bottled water and the waste that the industry generates.

The processing, moving and waste of water in petrochemical plastic bottles eats up large use of water as well as energy, and creates tremendous measures of greenhouse gases and waste.

Director of the recent documentary ‘Tapped: get off the bottle’ Stephanie Soechtig states “1500 water bottles end up in landfill every second – that’s 30 million water bottles a day! We wanted to show people just how much waste is generated by bottled water.” The people behind Tapped are promoting the movie with an across-America roadshow, asking pledges from donors to reduce their water bottle numbers and changing their used plastic water bottle for a reusable stainless steel bottle. Download Tapped from Amazon or iTunes.

Another such film ‘The Story of Bottled Water’ was released on World Water Day in March. From the pen of Annie Leonard of the acclaimed ‘The Story of Stuff’, this short film delves into the method that is behind conning Americans into wasting over half a billion bottles of water each and every week, compared with a few cents cost for water from the tap. Look up this film on You Tube.

Through her book ‘Bottlemania’, writer Elizabeth Royte explores one of the most massive marketing takeovers of the twentieth century and provides a strong environmental alarm. She investigates the questions we must inevitably answer to. Who distributes our water supply? What will happen when a bottled-water factory possesses your town’s water supply? Is the water coming from a tap entirely safe? What really is the environmental cost of production, transportation and waste of every plastic water bottle?

Politicians all around the international community are beginning to understand that they need to take responsibility – especially when the buildings where they collate are major consumers of bottled water. How often do we view a politician in a political debate drinking from a water bottle. It is probable that they must be able to use a water glass in Parliament House.

Leslie Samuelrich of Corporate Accountability International, told “Cities and states are spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on bottled water, and that’s not to mention what’s spent to deal with all the plastic bottles that are thrown out.”

In July 2009, the NSW rural town of Bundanoon became the first place from Australia to prevent the retailing of bottled water. Some 60 towns in the US and a few towns in Canada and the United Kingdom have lately banned the expenditure of taxpayer dollars on bottled water.

It is doubtless that these problems will be on the agenda at World Water Week 2010 from September 5 to 11 in Stockholm, Sweden, the annual meeting for the globe’s most time-sensitive water-related problems.

Article written by Tracey Bailey, founder of Biome Eco Stores.