Royte won an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship in 1990 to research and write about life at a biological research station in the tropics.
She has traveled throughout the world to research her articles and books. Her article about women who survived the genocide in Rwanda attracted a good deal of attention. Her work has been featured in the Best American Science Writing 2004 and the "Best American Science Writing 2009." Royte is a former Alicia Patterson Foundation fellow and a recipient of Bard College's John Dewey Award for Distinguished Public Service. Royte's articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, National Geographic, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, The Nation, Outside, Smithsonian, and other magazines. She is best known for her books Garbage Land (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year 2005), The Tapir's Morning Bath: Solving the Mysteries of the Tropical Rain Forest (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, 2001), Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It (a "Best of" or "Top 10" book of 2008 in Entertainment Weekly, Seed and Plenty magazines) and A Place to Go Along the way, she investigates the questions we must inevitably answer.Elizabeth Royte is an American science/nature writer. In this intelligent, accomplished work of narrative journalism, Elizabeth Royte does for water what Michael Pollan did for food: she finds the people, machines, economies, and cultural trends that bring it from distant aquifers to our supermarkets. Only now, with the water industry trading in the billions of dollars, have we begun to question what it is we're drinking.
The brands have become so ubiquitous that we're hardly conscious that Poland Spring and Evian were once real springs, bubbling in remote corners of Maine and France.
Second only to soda, bottled water is on the verge of becoming the most popular beverage in the country.
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