1) The document presents arguments against bottled water, noting that corporations spend millions marketing bottled water as superior to tap water to drive profits. 2) It argues that water should not be treated as a commodity and that corporations manufacture demand through marketing and scare tactics to treat water as a commodity for profit. 3) The document discusses policies like Colorado's bottle bill that increased recycling and funding for schools by placing deposits on bottles.

1. I’d Tap ThatPresented By:Mattie Dalton, Sarah Ryan, Kris Pierson, Kristin Michalski Tina Kribbs and Shellie Trierweiler

2. Take the Tap Water Challenge!1 in 6 people in the U.S. drink onlybottled water.In 2002, bottledwater corporationsspent $93.8 millionto portray bottledwater as betterthan tap water.Coke, Pepsi & Nestle are profitingfrom somethingthat is a human right.

3. Bottled-water companies appear to create products that improve your lifestyle, but in reality present certain risks to your own life, your environment, and your financial stability.

4. Is Water a Commodity?A commodity is a useful product of agriculture or mining that is supplied without qualitative differences across the market. It is the same no matter who produces it like petroleum, notebook paper, milk or copper.Should It Be?

5. “There is enough water for human need, but not for human greed.” - Ghandi

6. Commodification When people or products that there is no market for are “turned into” commodities by privet industry. Corporations Manufacture Demand in order to commodify.

7. Commodification When people or products that there is no market for are “turned into” commodities by privet industry. Corporations Manufacture Demand in order to commodify. Marketing

8. Commodification When people or products that there is no market for are “turned into” commodities by privet industry. Corporations Manufacture Demand in order to commodify. Marketing Scare tactics

9. Commodification When people or products that there is no market for are “turned into” commodities by privet industry. Corporations Manufacture Demand in order to commodify. Marketing Scare tactics Images

10. The ResultOne day will you be too poor to afford clean drinking water?

12. Recycling of RegulationFDA STATE GOV.EPA

13. Recycling the Colorado Bottle BillProsConsIncreased prices ¢5Other state’s trashBusiness Owners High costs for programIncreased Recycling rate

14. Money towards K-12

15. Cleaner ColoradoIncreased Recycling rateMoney towards K-12Cleaner ColoradoIncreased Recycling rate

16. Money towards K-12

17. \“In 2006, Colorado recycled 12.5 percent of its waste according to a study done by Columbia University. Sponsors of the bill said they expected to see that rise considerably, with 70 percent of bottles recycled if the bill were to pass” (Boven, Joseph)