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

Read an excerpt of Bottlemania.

Read about Elizabeth Royte, and her books Garbage Land and The Tapir's Morning Bath, both New York Times Notable Books.

 

Water Links

General Information About Drinking Water

From the Environmental Protection Agency on tap water: General information (www.epa.gov/safewater) and a FAQ (www.epa.gov/OGWDW/faq/faq.html)

And from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: www.cdc.gov/health/water.htm

The Environmental Working Group on contaminants in tap water: www.ewg.org/tapwater/findings.php

The Environmental Working Group's tap water database for local communities (data were collected between 1998 and 2002): www.ewg.org/sites/tapwater/yourwater/

The NRDC on contaminants in tap water: www.nrdc.org/water/drinking/fdrinkingwater.pdf

The EPA on testing for contaminants in well water: www.epa.gov/safewater/privatewells/index2.html

An NRDC report on tap water quality and compliance: www.nrdc.org/water/drinking/uscities/pdf/chap02.pdf

The U.S. Geological Survey on “emerging contaminants” in drinking water: toxics.usgs.gov/regional/emc/index.html

Information from the Consumer Federation of America on contaminants of concern for vulnerable populations: www.consumerfed.org/pdfs/vulnpop.pdf  

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on preventing cryptosporidiosis in vulnerable populations: preview.tinyurl.com/6nwbh7

The Campaign for Safe and Affordable Drinking Water's “Making Sense of ‘Right to Know' Reports”: www.safe-drinking-water.org/pdf/makesense.pdf .

Consumer Reports on deciphering your consumer confidence report.

The Department of Health and Human Services on the health effects of possible water contaminants: www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxpro2.html

To find a state-certified lab to test your water, see www.epa.gov/safewater/labs/index.html or call the Safe Drinking Water Hotline, 800/426-4791.

For more information on when or what to test for, see www.epa.gov/safewater/faq/pdfs/fs_homewatertesting.pdf

Physicians for Social Responsibility fact sheets on safe drinking water: www.psr.org/site/PageServer?pagename=Safe_Drinking_Water_main

Thinking about buying a water filter?

Consumer Reports video on five top water filters.

Consumer Reports on a filter to avoid.

From Food and Water Watch: preview.tinyurl.com/5x2bex

From Grist Magazine: preview.tinyurl.com/54jt6y

From Consumer Reports (May 2007), a primer on water-filter types: preview.tinyurl.com/4m48qx (Recommendations and ratings available by subscription only).

From the Green Guide and the National Sanitation Foundation:
www.thegreenguide.com/reports/product.mhtml?id=23&sec=2

What's the difference between bottled spring and well water? What's artesian?

www.cfsan.fda.gov/~acrobat/botwatr.pdf

How to purify water in an emergency:

www.wikihow.com/Purify-Water

Fluoride in your tap water?

In favor:   www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/

Opposed: http://www.fluoridealert.org/

To learn more about water and privatization:

The Alliance for Democracy: www.thealliancefordemocracy.org/water/

Blue Planet Project: www.blueplanetproject.net

Corporate Accountability International: www.stopcorporateabuse.org

Defending Water in Maine: www.defendingwaterinmaine.org  

Food and Watch Watch: http://foodandwaterwatch.org/

H2O for ME: www.h2oforme.com

McCloud Watershed Council: mccloudwatershedcouncil.org/

Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation www.savemiwater.org/

The Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment and Security: www.pacinst.org/

The Polaris Institute: www.polarisinstitute.org

Save Our Groundwater: www.saveourgroundwater.org

The Sierra Club's Water Privatization Taskforce: www.sierraclub.org/committees/cac/water/

Sweetwater Alliance: www.waterissweet.org/

Water Dividend Trust: www.waterdividendtrust.com/

Water Waves: www.waterwaves.org

Organizations working to protect public waterways

American Rivers:   www.americanrivers.org

The Nature Conservancy: www.nature.org/initiatives/freshwater/

American Whitewater www.americanwhitewater.org/

Environmental Defense: www.environmentaldefense.org

Earth Policy Institute: www.earth-policy.org

The Freshwater Society: www.freshwater.org

The River Network: www.rivernetwork.org

Trout Unlimited: www.tu.org

World Wildlife Fund: www.panda.org

Waterkeeper Alliance: www.waterkeeper.org

Clean Water Network: www.cleanwaternetwork.org/

Clean Water Action: www.cleanwateraction.org/

Earth Justice: www.earthjustice.org/our_work/issues/water/

League of Conservation Voters: www.lcv.org

Clearwater Hudson River Sloop: www.clearwater.org

Conservation International: www.conservation.org

Croton Watershed Clean Water Coalition www.newyorkwater.org

Other organizations

International Bottled Water Association: www.bottledwater.org

American Water Works Association: www.awwa.org

Water Environment Federation: http://wef.org/Home

Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies: www.amwa.net

The Pacific Institute: www.pacinst.org

On water footprints: www.waterfootprint.org

Water movies!

Thirst:   www.thirstthemovie.org

FLOW: For Love of Water   www.flowthefilm.com (Activists and educators: Get 25% off the retail price of a FLOW DVD by entering the code "watercitizen" at www.oscilloscope.net.)

Blue Gold: Life for Sale http://www.bluegold-worldwaterwars.com/

Water Warriors www.mediathatmattersfest.org/6/water_warriors/index.php?fs=about

See also Food and Water Watch's extensive filmography: www.foodandwaterwatch.org/films/films

Water Blogs

http://waterfortheages.wordpress.com/

http://waterwordsthatwork.com

http://www.alternet.org/water

http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/

Waterwired http://aquadoc.typepad.com/waterwired/

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