The Environmental Club shows the documentary "Tapped" to inform Skyline students. ()
There’s a healthier way than recycling to improve our environment, and now you can pledge to be a part of it. The Environmental Club at Skyline College is encouraging everyone to forget their plastic water bottle addictions and become more environmentally aware.
On Monday, Oct. 24 the Environmental Club at Skyline College presented the documentary “Tapped” (2009), directed by Stephanie Soechtig and Jason Lindsey, to inform viewers about the role of the bottled water industry. The documentary dissected all of the differences between tap and bottled water, explaining the effects on our health, pollution, climate change, and our society’s dependence on oil.
Amber Lincoln, the president of the Environmental Club, emphasized the importance of how California has some of the best tap water, and how we shouldn’t pay for something that we can always get for free.
“It’s important to us to lean students away from that cultural addiction to plastic water bottles that we all have…we want to show there (are) other alternatives,” said Lincoln. “We have some of the best tap water, there’s no reason we should be paying for something that we can get for