Amiably, without haranguing or hyperventilating, this veteran environmental writer has produced what could be, assuming enough people read it, one of the year's most influential books.' -Boston Globe look at the water wars: between bottled water and tap water, between big corporations and local water interests, between consumers who say they want the convenience, cleanliness and even status of bottled water, and environmentalists who condemn bottled water as “the moral equivalent of driving a Hummer,” producing tons of plastic bottles, racking up huge transportation fees and leaving behind a significant carbon footprint.' -Michiko Kakutani, New York Times ( read the whole review here) Is marketing, marketing and more marketing, but Elizabeth Royte goes much deeper into the drink, streaming trends cultural, economic, political and hydrological into an engaging investigation of an unexpectedly murky substance.' -Lisa Margonelli ( read the whole review here) NY Times Sunday Book Review: 'The facile answer Time Out Chicago called Bottlemania a Top 10 Book of 2008! PLENTY magazine says Bottlemania is a 'Top 10 Green Book of 2008!' SEED names Bottlemania an 'Outstanding Books of 2008!' Ultimately, Bottlemania makes a case for protecting public water supplies, for improving our water infrastructure and-in a world of increasing drought and pollution-better allocating the precious drinkable water that remains.ĮNTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Bottlemania is one of 10 'Must Read' non-fiction books of 2008! Moving beyond the environmental consequences of making, filling, transporting and landfilling those billions of bottles, Royte examines the state of tap water today (you may be surprised), and the social impact of water-hungry multinationals sinking ever more pumps into tiny rural towns. In this tiny town, and in others like it across the country, she finds the people, machines, economies, and cultural trends that have made bottled water a $60-billion-a-year phenomenon even as it threatens local control of a natural resource and litters the landscape with plastic waste. In the follow-up to Garbage Land, her influential investigation into our modern trash crisis, Elizabeth Royte ventures to Fryeburg, Maine, to look deep into the source-of Poland Spring water.

Bottlemania by elizabeth royte