Bottled and sold : the story behind our obsession with bottled water / Peter H. Gleick.
Water went from being a free natural resource to one of the most successful commercial products of the last one hundred years. That's a big story, and water is big business. Gleick exposes the true reasons we've turned to the bottle, from fear mongering by business interests and our own va...
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Island Press,
[2010]
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Table of Contents:
- The war on tap water
- Fear of the tap
- Selling unwholesome provisions
- If it's called "Arctic spring," why is it from Florida?
- The cachet of spring water
- The taste of water
- The hidden cost of convenience
- Selling bottled water: the modern medicine show
- Drinking bottled water: sin or salvation?
- Revolt: the growing campaign against bottled water
- Green water? The effort to produce ethical bottled water
- The future of water.