Tapped Documentary

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Tapped Large companies like Nestle, Coca Cola and Pepsi are pumping water from small towns without letting the citizens who populate those towns know. Many are left without water because of this. The small town of Fryeburg, located in Maine has a population of 3,449. They have been dealing with the company of Nestle for years. Nestle has been pumping their water without them knowing.
Logos In this documentary was excellent. The facts that were used on this film was pretty convincing. In the 5:42 minute mark Jim Wilfong says "seventy-five of the Earth's surface is covered in water and out of those seventy five percent only one percent is drinkable". For example, many believe that all drinkable water will one day be gone and our planet will suffer the consequences made by big companies like Nestle. Christopher Williams says " we need to know where the water we drink comes from. Water is not going to last …show more content…
The people who took part in this documentary needed to be more experienced. To me this documentary seemed to be more of an emotional reach or some kind of public announcement for people who are not aware of what the town of Fryeburg is going through and along with other small towns that can be manipulated how nestle is doing with Fryeburg. In this documentary they used more residents that experts but they were some. The former representative of Ohio state Denis Kucinich made an appearance on the 12:30 minute mark and said" water is a basic human right, it’s a necessity for the survival of life and the planet. When you start to commodify the necessities of life in such way as to make it difficult for people to get access to the necessities you have the basis for political instability". In addition to shorten Mr. Kucinich, we can't take the water from the earth and the people because everyone should be able to get their hands-on water, we should not have to be paying to use water which is a right and a
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