Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It

Hotel Resource Book Store 

 Store Home / Books / Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It

Hotel Industry Books 

Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It
by Elizabeth Royte
from Bloomsbury USA

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Important Reading that Raises Important Questions
  I found this book to be highly informative, putting a human face on a series of complex issues without simple answers. The book itself draws uncertain conclusions and leaves ultimate decisions in the hands of individual consumers and the masses, both localized and globalized. I found myself armed with new factual information with which to present my own arguments and with which to make my own personal decisions, including many surprising tidbits that were truly eye-openers. Despite a lengthy bibliography,... more info

• Anti Business Polemic
  Although many reviewers have commented on the author as an environmentalist, she is really opposed to corporations developing and marketing something as basic to nature as water. She finds this essentially offensive, as if a large corporation might automate the raising of organic bean sprouts and deliver them to grocery stores. It takes the environmental revolutionary and the Vermont coop out of the equation. If everyone drinking sugar-laden sodas were to switch to bottled water, as many have, the health of... more info

• Excellent research and writing on this priority subject
  Bottlemania: how water went on sale and why we bought it
  By
  Elizabeth Royte
  (Published by Bloomsbury USA, New York - First edition 2008)
  What is our future if water, life's most vital necessity, becomes a commodity - to be sold for profit - rather than a shared commons? In this fast-moving, well-researched book, Elizabeth Royte describes the astonishing increase in sales of bottled water in the U.S.; this, despite the fact that tap water costs anywhere from 240 to 10,000 times less... more info

• Long on strident advocacy: short on provable facts
  I was pre-disposed to liking this book based upon its full title alone: "Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It". Indeed, I look at people with their fancy, expensive bottled waters and chuckle. Tap water in most US cities is good enough for me. So I sat down with "Bottlemania", enitrely prepared to enjoy a roasting of the bottled water industry and (in my opinion) the foolish people who buy most of its wares.
  I quickly realized that "Bottlemania" was long on strident advocacy and... more info

Similar Products:

Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash by Elizabeth Royte (Hardcover)

Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to... by Maude Barlow (Hardcover) - Usually ships in 24 hours

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan (Hardcover) - Usually ships in 24 hours

Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) by Tom Vanderbilt (Hardcover) - Usually ships in 24 hours

When the Rivers Run Dry: Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century by Fred Pearce (Paperback) - Usually ships in 24 hours