Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (728 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1597265284 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 232 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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W.E. Polis said A great book for anyone who drinks water. This is a rare book: its both a pleasure to read and very revealing. From scores of interesting stories and well-researched evidence, an expose emerges -- what seems to be pure and easy (grabbing that bottle) has far-reaching impacts -- not to mention health risks!How did bottled water become so popular? What are the impacts on the environment? What's in the bottle? And, most importantly, what are the alternatives? The author answers these questions in. Rob Hardy said The Bottled Water Menace. When I go running in these hot summer afternoons, I have to make sure to drink plenty of water beforehand. It used to be that I could get a drink of water at a halfway point on at least one of my usual routes, but the public water fountain there stopped flowing a few years ago, and though the structure remains, no one seems motivated to restore the flow of water that is the reason it is there. It's probably just low on the priorities, I used to think, . Fascinating and thought-provoking L. Lieb Jeremy Glick's book brings up a whole new world: bottled war.It's fascinating to read about the rise of bottled water and how it became such an influential industry. Bottled water isn't cheap, and it's environmental costs are far worse. Tap water in modernized countries is seldom worse than the bottle variety. In fact, tap water is tested more and has to meet certain standards. Conversely, there are few--if any--standards that bottled water must meet.
Public access to drinking water would be easy, and selling bottled water difficult, he writes, and government regulatory agencies should protect water from contamination and the public from misleading marketing and blatant hucksterism. . So why does someone buy a bottle of water every second of every day? And where do the thousands of plastic bottles discarded daily end up? Gleick, recipient of a MacArthur fellowship and president of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security, argues passionately for a new era in water management. From Publishers Weekly Tap water is safe almost everywhere in the U.S. All rights reserved. Bottled water companies should be forced to include the true environmental costs of the production and disposal of plastic bottles in the price of bottled water, leaving it as an expensive option that most people will avoid With the gusto of a born raconteur and the passi
"Designer" H2O may be laughable, but the debate over commodifying water is deadly serious. Every second of every day in the United States, a thousand people buy a plastic bottle of water, and every second of every day a thousand more throw one of those bottles away. Peter Gleick knows water. That adds up to more than thirty billion bottles a year and tens of billions of dollars of sales. And he drinks from the tap. Why don't the rest of us? Bottled and Sold shows how water went from being a free natural resource to one of the most successful commercial products of the last one hundred years-and why we are poorer for it. And he exposes the true reasons we've turned to the bottle, from fearmongering by business interests and our own vanity to the breakdown of public systems and global inequities. It comes down to society's choices about human rights, the role of government and free markets, the importance of being "green," and fundamental values. It's a big story and water is big business. A world-renowned scientist and freshwater expert, Gleic