GRANVILLE—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.

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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.