![]() ![]() Fryeburg residents are at odds about whether they should welcome or shun the corporate interloper. An aquifer there is a source for Nestlé-owned Poland Spring, which built a bottling plant in nearby Hollis. She raises questions about bottled water's surging sales and its impact on society and the environment - and explains what she's learned in a straightforward, conversational voice that makes even the densest statistics and scientific explanations accessible (well, almost). In Bottlemania, she explores how water is accessed, packaged and sold compares tap water with bottled water and muses on the commodification of a natural resource. Royte, no stranger to environmentally focused reporting, also wrote Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash and The Tapir's Morning Bath: Mysteries of the Tropical Rain Forest and the Scientists Who Are Trying to Solve Them. Natural supplies of clean, fresh water could dry up if we don't start paying attention to where water comes from, what we do to it and why we drink it. The "green" movement has raised Americans' consciousness about carbon footprints and recycling. ![]()
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