Along the way, she investigates the questions we must inevitably answer. 2001), Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It (a Best. In this intelligent, accomplished work of narrative journalism, Elizabeth Royte does for water what Michael Pollan did for food: she finds the people, machines, economies, and cultural trends that bring it from distant aquifers to our supermarkets. Elizabeth Royte is an American science/nature writer. Only now, with the water industry trading in the billions of dollars, have we begun to question what it is we're drinking. Bottlemania: How water went on sale and why we bought it by Elizabeth Royte, Bloomsbury, 24.99, ISBN 9781596913714 ALLOW me to grovel, confess, repent: I drink a lot of bottled water. The brands have become so ubiquitous that we're hardly conscious that Poland Spring and Evian were once real springs, bubbling in remote corners of Maine and France. Second only to soda, bottled water is on the verge of becoming the most popular beverage in the country.
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