Wed 8/25 @ 4:30PM
It’s the Year of Water at Case Western Reserve University. The Year begins w/ a speech by Elizabeth Royte, author of Bottlemania: Big Business, Local Springs and the Battle over America’s Drinking Water, who will speak on the environmental and economic consequences of choosing bottled water over tap.
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Royte’s exposé on the bottle water industry was chosen as the 2010 Common Reading selection for Case Western Reserve University’s incoming students. Royte has been invited to give the free, public keynote address for the university’s Fall Convocation on Wednesday, Aug. 25, at 4:30 p.m. in Severance Hall, 11001 Euclid Ave.
Using a case study of Nestle’s Poland Springs, bottled in Fryeburg, Me., Royte launched her look at bottled water from the underground natural springs of Maine to the bottles rolling off the production lines at various plants, to tell the story of the burgeoning popularity of water in bottles.
“Thoroughly researched, fluid storytelling by a veteran investigative journalist, Bottlemania is a watery Fast Food Nation, a treatise on H2O that PR flacks would rather keep underground,” writes D. Grant Black from the Toronto Star.
She’ll speak as part of CWRU’s Fall Convocation, which is open to the public.
Severance Hall
http://Case.edu/events/convocation/about/featured.html