No wonder. The feature presentation at Victoria Event Centre was Tapped, Stephanie Soechtig’s eye-opening documentary about the impact — environmental and otherwise — of the unregulated bottled water industry.

As always at these monthly screenings of social issue films, the film was punctuated by lively discussion.

Panelists included Greater Victoria Water Watch Coalition’s Janet Gray, media strategist and filmmaker Bill Weaver, CRD Water Conservation’s Deborah Walker and Susanne Porter-Bopp, POLIS Project’s community water co-ordinator.

The collective was formed with the intent of bringing people together in a suburban setting to explore issues that affect communities.

“The Lower Mainland has many social justice events, but they are often focused in the Vancouver area,” says Ravi Kahlon, a member of the collective.