Few people would argue that drinking water is a bad thing. Author Elizabeth Royte will offer a wider view of the subject with a lecture on “Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It” at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 12, in the Burton D. Morgan Center Lecture Hall (150 Ridge Road). The lecture is free and open to the public.

Royte has written for The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, National Geographic, The New Yorker, Outside, Smithsonian and other national magazines. She is the author of “Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash,” and “Bottlemania: Big Business, Local Springs, and the Battle Over America's Drinking Water.”

The lecture is sponsored by the Denison Lecture Series.

Calendar Listing:

CALENDAR LISTING, Denison University, Granville—Lecture by Elizabeth Royte, “Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It,” at 8 p.m. on Thur., Nov. 12, in the Burton D. Morgan Center Lecture Hall (150 Ridge Road). Free and open to the public.

About Denison:

Denison University, founded in 1831, is an independent, residential liberal arts institution located in Granville, Ohio. A highly selective college enrolling 2,100 full-time undergraduate students from all 50 states and dozens of foreign countries, Denison is a place where innovative faculty and motivated students collaborate in rigorous scholarship, civic engagement and the cultivation of independent thinking.

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