Bottlemania Big Business, Local Springs, and the Battle over America's Drinking Water

Name: Bottlemania Big Business, Local Springs, and the Battle over America's Drinking Water
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ISBN: 9781596913721

ISBN-10: 159691372X

ISBN-13: 9781596913721

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Authors: Elizabeth Royte

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"An engaging investigation of an unexpectedly murky substance...After you read it you will sip warily from your water bottle."New York Times Book ReviewBottled water is on the verge of becoming the most popular beverage in the country. But what's the cost of all this waterfor us and for the environment? In this eye-opening book, Elizabeth Royte does for water what Michael Pollan did for food: She examines the people, machines, economies, and cultural trends that surround it on its journey from distant aquifers to our supermarkets and homes. She looks at the various sources of drinking water (including the embattled Maine town that Poland Spring exports from), the chemicals we dump into it…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 7/14/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Elizabeth Royte is a contributing writer for Outside magazine. She has written for the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, National Geographic, Smithsonian, The New Yorker, and Rolling Stone.




An Alarm in the Woods



All You Can Drink



Mysteries of the Deep



The Cradle of the Saco



The Public Trough



Aftertaste



Backlash



Town Meeting



Something to Drink?


Afterword


Acknowledgments


Appendix


Selected Bibliography and Further Reading


Index