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Aired: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 11-12PM ET
By host Tom Ashbrook:
How thirsty is America for bottled water? Pretty darned thirsty. Every week of the year we now move a billion bottles of water from ground to gullet in ships and trains and trucks. That's the equivalent of almost 38,000 eighteen-wheelers full of water every week.
Sixteen billion dollars a year now spent on bottled water from Maine, Italy and Fiji. Only a few years ago, we drank almost none. Now, water bottles are choking landfills and some are asking -- what are we doing? And tap water is still free.
This hour On Point: the cost of an obsession with bottled water.
| · | Charles Fishman, editor-at-large, Fast Company magazine, writer of the recent article "Message in a Bottle," and author of "The Wal-Mart Effect" | | · | Joseph Doss, president and CEO of the International Bottled Water Association | | · | Gigi Kellett, "Think Outside the Bottle" campaign director for Corporate Accountability International | | · | Philip Singer, professor of environmental engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health, and director of the school's Drinking Water Research Center. |
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