Download Bottlemania: Big Business, Local Springs, and the Battle Over America's Drinking Water AudioBook Free
Second only to soda, bottled water is on the verge to become typically the most popular beverage in the country. The brands have grown to be so ubiquitous that we're scarcely conscious that Poland Spring and Evian were once real springs, bubbling in distant edges of Maine and France. Only now, with this inflatable water industry trading in the billions of us dollars, have we started to question what it is we're enjoying. In this smart, attained work of narrative journalism, Elizabeth Royte does indeed for water what Michael Pollan have for food: she detects people, machines, economies, and ethnical trends that take it from faraway aquifers to your supermarkets. Along the way, she investigates the questions we must inevitably answer. Who possesses our water? Just how much should we drink? Should we must pay for it? Is faucet safe water safe to drink? And when so, just how many chemicals are dumped directly into make it potable? What goes on to all those plastic bottles we take with you as predictably as mobile phones? And undoubtedly, what's better: tap water or bottled?
