Drinking Water (47 page)
Spork, Otto,
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Squaw Valley Creek Watershed,
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Stewart, R. J.,
38
“
Story of Bottled Water, The
,”
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Strange, Jennifer Lea,
138
Stuyvesant, Peter,
58
Styx,
34
Sullivan, John,
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Sunstein, Cass,
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Super Bowl,
146
Tahoe, Lake,
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“Take Back the Tap,”
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Talmud,
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Tammuz,
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Tan, Khaiting,
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Tantalus,
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TARP,
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Tea Water Pump,
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Tea Water,
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Technical World Magazine
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Thompson, Jim,
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Tian Tan Buddha fountain,
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“toilet-to-tap,”
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Toowoomba Water Futures Project,
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trihalomethanes,
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Tring Dayak people,
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trout,
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tubewells,
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Tuxedo, The
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typhoid,
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Uhlmann, David,
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ultraviolet light,
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UN General Assembly,
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UNESCO,
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United Church of Canada,
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United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF),
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United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,
204
United Nations Human Development Index,
216
United Nations, and resolution on drinking water,
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University of Central Florida stadium,
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V for Vendetta
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Valencia, Pablo,
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vectigal
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Vegetius,
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Venice,
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Veolia Environnement,
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vestal virgins,
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Vichy,
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Virgin Galactic,
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Vitruvius,
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Vittel,
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Wachusett Reservoir,
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Wai-ni-dula (Water of Solace),
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Walcot, William,
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Wales, temple complex,
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Water 1
st
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Water Acts,
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water attacks,
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water hammer,
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Water Information Sharing and Analysis Center (WaterISAC),
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Water Services Act,
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Water Standard,
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water, aversion to,
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chilled,
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and developing countries,
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geological influences,
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infrastructure,
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poisoning of in wartime,
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prescription drugs,
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and terrorism,
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and war,
78
WaterAid,
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“water deprivation,”
198
WaterGuard,
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WaterMill,
238
Waters, Alice,
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“Water Works Money,”
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Weather Underground,
142
Webster, Noah,
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Well of Youth,
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Welles, Orson,
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Wellington, Susan,
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wells,
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, in Bangladesh,
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and bottled water,
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and Civil War,
142
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and Cochabamba,
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and Coke,
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and the drinking fountain,
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explosion of,
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and
Lawrence of Arabia
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in London,
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in New Amsterdam/New York,
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in Old Testament,
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and pharmaceuticals,
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and POU,
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in Rome,
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sacred,
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spiritual nature of,
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and Babylonian Talmud,
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Wiesenberger, Arthur von,
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Windram, Ken,
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Wittfogel, Karl,
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Woof Water,
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World Bank Development Marketplace Award,
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World Bank,
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World Health Organization, and arsenic,
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World Wildlife Fund,
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Yggdrasil,
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Yorubaland,
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Zakarian, Geoffrey,
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Zeus,
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Zimbabwe, and water,
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JAMES SALZMAN
holds the Samuel Mordecai chair in the School of Law and the Nicholas Institute Professor chair in the School of the Environment at Duke University. He has written extensively on the topics of environmental conservation, population growth, and climate change. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.
Visit
www.drinkingwaterhistory.com
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR DRINKING WATER
“What do Rome’s aqueducts, Napoleon’s 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. Even if you prefer to drink wine—it’s mostly water anyway—you’ll enjoy this book.”
—JARED DIAMOND, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of
Guns, Germs, and Steel
“Instead of buying your next twelve-pack of bottled water, buy this fascinating account of all the people who spent their lives making sure you’d have clean, safe drinking water every time you turned on the tap.”
—BILL MCKIBBEN, author of
Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
“In his deeply thorough, thought-provoking and ultimately hopeful book, James Salzman shows why water security and quality are set to boil to the surface of world politics.”
—JOHN ELKINGTON, author of
The Green Consumer’s Guide
and
Cannibals with Forks: The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business
“Meticulously researched, grandly conceived, and splendidly executed,
Drinking Water
takes a prosaic subject and makes it endlessly fascinating. Smart, witty, and perceptive,
Drinking Water
is essential reading.”
—ROBERT GLENNON, author of
Unquenchable: America’s Water Crisis and What To Do About It
“Salzman has produced a gem of uncommon value—a fascinating book which slips in among its engaging stories their weighty implications for policy.”
—WILLIAM K. REILLY, former Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and former President of the World Wildlife Fund
“
Drinking Water
effortlessly guides us through a fascinating world we never consider. Even for people who think they know water, there is a surprise on almost every page.”
—CHARLES FISHMAN, bestselling author of
The Big Thirst
and
The Wal-Mart Effect
“Immensely readable, the book weaves one entertaining story after another to show how we have thought about, valued, protected, and provided this most precious of all liquids.”
—PAUL R. EHRLICH, author of
The Population Bomb
and
The Dominant Animal
ABOUT THE DRINKING WATER
W
hen we turn on the tap or twist open a tall, cold plastic bottle, we might not give a second thought to where our drinking water comes from. But how it gets from the ground to the glass is far more complex than we might think. With concerns over pollution and new technologies like fracking, is it safe to drink tap water? Should we feel guilty buying bottled water? Is the water we drink vulnerable to terrorist attacks? With springs running dry and reservoirs emptying, where is our water going to come from in the future?
In
Drinking Water
, Duke University professor and environmental policy expert 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. From the aqueducts of Rome to the revolutionary sewer system in nineteenth-century London to today’s state-of-the-art desalination plants, safety and scarcity of water have always been one of society’s most important functions.
Bloody battles over control of water sources stretch as far back as the Bible, yet even today such conflicts routinely make front-page headlines all around the world. Only fifty years ago, selling bottled water sounded as ludicrous as selling bottled air, but now store shelves are stocked with dozens of different focus-group-tested brands—many of which are just repackaged tap water. Provocative, insightful, and above all fun to read,
Drinking Water
weaves all of these issues together to show just how complex a simple glass of water can be.