Along the way, she investigates the questions we must inevitably answer. 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. Only now, with the water industry trading in the billions of dollars, have we begun to question what it is were drinking and why. The brands have become so ubiquitous that were hardly conscious that Poland Spring and Evian were once real springs, bubbling in remote corners of Maine and France. 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. An incisive, intrepid, and habit-changing narrative investigation into the commercialization of our most basic human need: drinking water.
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