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Drinking water : a history / James Salzman.

Salzman, James.
2012
TD345 .S29 2012 (Mapit)
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Title
Drinking water : a history / James Salzman.
Author
Salzman, James.
ISBN
9781590207208 (US)
1590207203 (US)
9780715645284 (UK)
0715645285 (UK)
Published
New York : Overlook Duckworth, 2012.
Language
English
Description
320 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Call Number
TD345 .S29 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
333.912/2
Summary
Duke professor James Salzman shows how drinking water highlights the most pressing issues of our time--from globalization and social justice to terrorism and climate change--and how humans have been wrestling with these problems for centuries.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-309) and index.
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Introduction: Mother McCloud
The fountain of youth
Who gets to drink?
Is it safe to drink the water?
Death in small doses
Blue terror
Bigger than soft drinks
Need versus greed
Finding water for the twenty-first century
Afterword: A glass half empty/a glass half full.

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