At Old First Reformed Church on Thursday, September 25th @ 7:00 p.m.

Elizabeth Royte reads and discusses Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It
Presented in conjunction with Old First Reformed Church and Park Slope Neighbors

Award-winning investigative journalist – and Park Slope resident –
Elizabeth Royte will read from her acclaimed new book, an illuminating
albeit distressing look at the people, machines, economies and cultural
trends that have made bottled water a $60-billion- a-year phenomenon
even as it threatens local control of a natural resource and litters
the landscape with plastic waste.

Bottlemania was featured on the front page of the June 15th New York
Times Book Review, when it garnered raves from reviewer Lisa
Margonelli, and was praised again in a second review by the notoriously
hard-to-please Times critic Michiko Kakutani. The Boston Globe called
Bottlemania "one of the year’s most influential books."

Ms. Royte will be joined by Jay Simpson, staff attorney at the
environmental advocacy group Riverkeeper. Mr. Simpson, who will speak
about his work as a member of Riverkeeper’s Watershed Team,
investigates and prosecutes Clean Water Act violations, fights sprawl
in the Hudson River watershed, and works with community groups to
protect our public drinking-water supply.

This event will be held at Old First Reformed Church, on the corner of 7th Avenue and Carroll Street, in Park Slope, Brooklyn.