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The Story of Bottled Water is jam-packed with information, but, of course, it’s just the tip of the iceberg. There is tons more information out there about the topics raised in the movie. Here are some resources to get you started:
From the Movie
- Myth vs. Reality (PDF)
- Annotated Script (PDF)
Books
- Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water, Peter H. Gleick, 2010
- Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It, Elizabeth Royte, 2008
- Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water, Maude Barlow, 2007
- Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Theft of the World’s Water, Maude Barlow
- Inside the Bottle: Exposing the Bottled Water Industry, Tony Clarke, 2005
- Reclaiming Public Water book: Achievements, Struggles and Visions from Around the World, Brennan, Hoedeman, Terhorst, Kishimoto, 2005
- The Story of Stuff, Anne Leonard, 2010
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The Polaris Institute is a public interest research and advocacy organization based in Canada. Since 2003 Polaris has researched the impacts of the bottled water industry and actively campaigned for local, municipal, provincial, and federal bottled water restrictions. The www.insidethebottle.org initiative is a national program of the Institute that conducts research, advocacy, pubic education and grassroots mobilization on bottled water.






