LEADER 03741nam 2200541Ia 450 001 9910791653703321 005 20230725015937.0 010 $a1-59726-810-0 035 $a(CKB)2560000000054757 035 $a(OCoLC)692204520 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10437873 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000413089 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11277862 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000413089 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10388474 035 $a(PQKB)11745873 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3317498 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3317498 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10437873 035 $a(OCoLC)923187667 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000054757 100 $a20091119d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBottled and sold$b[electronic resource] $ethe story behind our obsession with bottled water /$fPeter H. Gleick 210 $aWashington, DC $cIsland Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (228 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-59726-528-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aTitle Page--Copyright Page--Table of Contents--Preface--Chapter 1: The War on Tap Water--Chapter 2: Fear of the Tap--Chapter 3: Selling Unwholesome Provisions--Chapter 4: If It's Called "Arctic Spring," Why is it from Florida?--Chapter 5: The Cachet of Spring Water--Chapter 6: The Taste of Water--Chapter 7: The Hidden Cost of Convenience--Chapter 8: Selling Bottled Water: The Modern Medicine Show--Chapter 9: Drinking Bottled Water: Sin or Salvation?--Chapter 10: Revolt: The Growing Campaign Against Bottled Water--Chapter 11: Green Water? The Effort to Produce Ethical Bottled Water--Chapter 12: The Future of Water Acknowledgments Notes Index. 330 $a"Peter Gleick knows water. A world-renowned scientist and freshwater expert, Gleick is a MacArthur Foundation'genius,'and according to the BBC, an environmental visionary. 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. It's a big story and water is big business. 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. That adds up to more than thirty billion bottles a year and tens of billions of dollars of sales. Are there legitimate reasons to buy all those bottles? With a scientist's eye and a natural storyteller's wit, Gleick investigates whether industry claims about the relative safety, convenience, and taste of bottled versus tap hold water. 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.'Designer'H2O may be laughable, but the debate over commodifying water is deadly serious. 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. Gleick gets to the heart of the bottled water craze, exploring what it means for us to bottle and sell our most basic necessity."--Provided by publisher. 606 $aBottled water 606 $aDrinking water 615 0$aBottled water. 615 0$aDrinking water. 676 $a663/.61 700 $aGleick$b Peter H$01513546 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791653703321 996 $aBottled and sold$93748109 997 $aUNINA