Bottled and sold : the story behind our obsession with bottled water / Peter H. Gleick.
Gleick, Peter H.
2010
TP659 .G54 2010 (Mapit)
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Title
Bottled and sold : the story behind our obsession with bottled water / Peter H. Gleick.
Author
Gleick, Peter H.
ISBN
9781597265287 (alk. paper)
1597265284 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Washington, DC : Island Press, c2010.
Language
English
Description
xiii, 211 p. : ill., map, charts ; 24 cm.
Call Number
TP659 .G54 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
663/.61
Summary
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 vanity to the breakdown of public systems and global inequities.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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