geography exam 4 documentary

Plastic water bottle manufacturers use 714 million gallons of oil/year to make plastic bottles. That's enough to fuel ________ cars

100,00 cars

Coca-Cola pumped _____million gallons of water from the lake in Atlanta during a level 4 drought in 2007 even though severe restrictions on local residents & businesses were in effect

118

By the year _____, 2/3 of the world's population will lack access to clean drinking water.

2030

In the next _____ years, no matter where you live, clean water access will be an issue due to changes in ______ ________

25 Climate change

In 2007, Americans bought more than _____ billion bottles of water

29

Of 80 million single serving plastic bottles used daily, ____ million end up in landfills.

30

Municipalities test tap water multiple times per day. In a city of over 1 million, they test tap water ____ ______ per month. In a city of over 3 million, they test tap water ______ ________ per month

300 times 400 times

In 2007, ____ states suffered from drought, but _______ still pumped ______ ______ gallons of water per DAY during the drought's height.

35 Pepsi over 400,000

What percentage of bottled water is just filtered tap water?

40%

___% of Americans don't have curbside recycling yet bottled water companies push that method of recycling over container deposit legislation.

50

The average world recycling of beverage containers is ______. The US ________

50% 20% of all beverage containers actually getting recycled

In 1999, the Western Pacific Garbage Patch had ___ times the plastic as plankton. In 2008, that had jumped to ____ times.

6 46

Poland Springs water costs Nestle between ___ and ____ cents/gallon to extract, process, & package but they sell it for $___ a gallon.

6 and 11 $6

FDA has no control over IN state commerce, only INTERstate (crossing state lines). Ex: If water pumped in Maine and dispensed in Maine is NOT regulated by the FDA. How much bottled water purchased is produced within state lines?

60% to 70% and the FDA had no control over those types of bottled water.

Eleven states have container deposit legislation. The 5¢ states have a _____ return rate while Michigan with its 10¢ deposit has a _____ return rate.

70% 97%

National Institutes of Health reviewed over ______peer-reviewed studies on BPA. FDA reviewed 2 studies from the industry. ________ internationally recognized scientists expressed concern over BPA's effect on human health.

700 38

How much of Earth's surface is covered in water? ___% How much of it is drinkable?

75% 1%

Birth defects in Corpus Christi, TX are _____ higher than the state average. _____ _______ is the name of the company in Corpus Christi that makes paraxylene

84% Flint Hills

What do they say in their advertisements?

Drink more water, it will make us thinner, it will make us more beautiful, they implied that the bottled water was better for us than tap water

What country is this corporation from?

The country this corporation is from is Switzerland

How do bottled water companies imply tap water isn't healthy?

They use words like "pure" to imply that tap water was not. They would say that water is "safe" and "healthful" to imply that tap water was not

The World Bank values the world water market at _______ ________

$800 Billion.

Why are local residents so upset about Nestlé's water mining? (at least 3 reasons) Is the anger of these local residents justified?

-They are taking the water from the town before the local people who are impacted by the water mining. -They get to take the most amount of water -They never notified anybody in the town what they were doing and so they just started pumping

B-phisenol or BPA is linked to many severe health problems. Name 3:

-may cause obesity -diabetes -breast cancer

Name 3 things that YOU can do to curtail the bottled water industry.

-use reusable water bottles as an alternative -recycle plastic water bottles -voice our concerns about the plastic that is used for our water bottles

How many people at the FDA are responsible for overseeing bottled water regulations?

1 person (Lauren Robin)

Who said "There is enough water for human need but not enough for human greed?"

Mahatma Gandhi

Where is the largest food processing plant in the world?

Maine has the largest food processing plant in the world

Poland Springs is a part of which major corporation?

Nestle

Name the 3 largest water bottling corporations:

Nestle, Coke and Pepsi.

Where does the plastic used for these bottles come from?

Refineries and petrochemical plants.

When we treat our water as a commodity it becomes....

becomes the price of the water is dependent on supply and demand we end up with corporate control of all our drinking water.

Paraxylene, a main compound in plastic and found in bottled water is linked to causing ______

cancer

Bottled water manufacturers do their own tests on sources & products. Are they required to submit these reports to the FDA? ____ Municipal water sources also test their water sources & products. Are they required to submit these reports? ____

no no

Dr. Alderson states that all approval from FDA comes from whose studies? ______ _______ _________ What does this mean?_______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Ex: If approval comes from only one source, there is a higher chance of providing information which solely substantiates their argument.

the industry itself They don't ask for independent sources. The company reviews them themselves resulting in the company never publishing a study that discredits the industry.