Water Bottle – A Sacred Vessel?

by Dorothee Royal-Hedinger · View Comments

Have you ever stopped to wonder what anthropologists from the distant future might think about our society when they take a look at all the trash we’ve left behind? KQED’s QUEST series explores this idea with a funny and revealing take on the “future” analysis of plastic water bottles.

Future History: Plastic Water Bottles

Dorothee Royal-Hedinger

Both good points Eric and Bourree!

bourree

what we need is fountains on the streets, then we will all just fill up our nalgenes.

Eric

That's clever, but there's no way that plastic could last 3068 SOL years.

I love the part how it says it would make no sense to carry water in these bottles because we "had pipes to get water just about everywhere"

Hans

Nah, i think it would like kind of like seaglass.... if you're a kid and you find a piece, it's like "OMG this is amazing i'm gonna be rich and put this in a jar at home omg i'm so lucky" and you're parents kind of egg you on and say "wow great job honey" but it turns out that noone really cares and it's all over the friggin place.