This surprising, delightful, fact-filled book will help you shine in conversations at dinner tables and cocktail parties. What do Romes aqueducts, Napoleons death, and the pilgrimage site of Lourdes have in common? All involve water: the leading ingredient of our bodies, essential for our daily lives, and the subject of innumerable struggles. Why does bottled water, the cheapest and most abundant liquid, sell for more than the same volume of gasoline? Even if you prefer to drink wine its mostly water anyway youll enjoy this book -- Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel Buy this fascinating account of all the people who spent their lives making sure you'd have clean, safe drinking water every time you turn on the tap -- Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
Water is something we take for granted; whether from tap or bottle, we rarely think about its source. But its journey to our glasses is more complicated than we realise. With a booming worldwide population, where will our water come from in the future? And is it safe to drink tap water? Is bottled water wasteful? Drinking Water explains the overlooked and surprising history of drinking water from Biblical conflicts to overpriced mineral water. You will never look at your glass in the same way again.
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