- [first lines]
- Annie Leonard: This is a story about a world obsessed with stuff. It's a story about a system in crisis. We are trashing the planet, we are trashing each other, and we're not even having fun.
- Annie Leonard: Bottled water costs about 2000 times more than tap water. Can you imagine paying 2000 times the price of anything else? How about a $ 10,000 sandwich?
- Annie Leonard: People in the U.S. buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week. That is enough to circle the globe more than five times.
- [last lines]
- Annie Leonard: The bottled-water industry is getting worried 'cause the jig is up. We are not buying into their manufactured demand any more. We will choose our own demand, thank you very much. And we are demanding clean, safe water for all.