Author: Royte, Elizabeth

Having already surpassed milk and beer, second only to soda, bottled water is on the verge of becoming the country's most popular beverage. A riveting chronicle of one of the greatest marketing coups of all time as well as a powerful environmental wake-up call, this intelligent, eye-opening book investigates the commercialization of our most basic human need. Who owns our water? Should we have to pay for it? And what's the environmental footprint of making, transporting, and disposing of all those plastic bottles? 288 pp.