false 2303301 4 <div><div>An incisive, intrepid, and habit-changing narrative investigation into the commercialization of our most basic human need: drinking water.<br>Having already surpassed milk and beer, and second now only to soda, bottled water is on the verge of becoming the most popular beverage in the country. The brands have become so ubiquitous that we&#8217;re hardly conscious that Poland Spring and Evian were once real springs, bubbling in remote corners of Maine and France. Only now, with the water industry trading in the billions of dollars, have we begun to question what it is we&#8217;re drinking and why.<br>In this intelligent, eye-opening work of narrative journalism, Elizabeth Royte does for water what Eric Schlosser did for fast food: she finds the people, machines, economies, and cultural trends that bring it from nature to our supermarkets. Along the way, she investigates the questions we must inevitably answer. Who owns our water? What happens when a bottled-water company stakes a claim on your town&#8217;s source? Should we have to pay for water? Is the stuff coming from the tap completely safe? And if so, how many chemicals are dumped in to make it potable? What&#8217;s the environmental footprint of making, transporting, and disposing of all those plastic bottles?<br>A riveting chronicle of one of the greatest marketing coups of the twentieth century as well as a powerful environmental wake-up call, Bottlemania is essential reading for anyone who shells out two dollars to quench their daily thirst.</div></div> 2309707 book 13 5 2008 Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale And Why We Bought It total:227|5:30|4:86|3:87|2:20|1:4| 227 799 658 87 4 5 false false Sun Jul 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 07:59:16 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 22:30:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 3 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon May 19 06:29:23 -0700 2008 Mon May 19 06:30:10 -0700 2008 4 1 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 07:18:32 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 07:27:04 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 1 false false Fri Jan 30 11:36:11 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 11:36:40 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Jan 19 09:02:51 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 15 06:00:27 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 09:02:51 -0800 2009
The book is best when it discusses consumer idiocy in buying this stuff, which in many cases is no better (and in some cases worse) than what comes out of the tap (for example - benzene i...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jan 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 23 22:45:57 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 03 18:54:21 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Jun 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 16 13:58:03 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 21 19:10:54 -0700 2008
My family drinks a lot of bottled water, and I'd never considered the downsides to it until reading this. There are a lot of things about water I'd never considered until reading this.

This book has me interested in changing the way my family uses ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Nov 16 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 04 23:07:42 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 23:07:42 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Jul 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 23 19:52:24 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 23 20:12:48 -0700 2008
Aside from scaring me into a Brita filter, this book challenged me to STOP buying bottled water. A bit repet...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 18:55:43 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 19:01:27 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Nov 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 14 08:45:59 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 24 16:27:43 -0800 2008
What makes this book so good is that Royte is an...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 12 12:33:50 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 14 13:52:59 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Aug 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 08 10:01:54 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 14 10:15:10 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Oct 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 05 16:15:11 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 09 14:53:46 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 4 false false Mon Aug 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 12 11:38:59 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 09 21:04:19 -0700 2009 Garbage Land, it hasn't diminished my love for Elizabeth Royte any. She has a fantastic voice, which makes anything she discusses clear and interesting, whether it's complex scientific research, myriad statistics, small-town political drama, or the spins and postu...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jul 04 06:30:22 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 25 10:10:03 -0700 2009
Good read. Enjoy it with a fresh, icy cold glass of tap water.

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