28 June 2008
Bottlemania
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Bottled water is about as ubiquitous as any consumer product on earth these days.
But is the whole bottled water phenomenon a triumph of marketing over commonsense?
What are the actual health benefits of a product that can cost 10,000 times as much as tap water?
Guests
Elizabeth Royte
Journalist and author
Publications
Title: Bottlemania: How water went on sale and why we bought it
Author: Elizabeth Royte
Publisher: Scribe
Story Researcher and Producer
Julie Browning
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