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Troubled water : what's wrong with what we drink / Seth M. Siegel.
Lippincott Library - Business Trends RA592.A1 S54 2019
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Siegel, Seth M., 1953- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drinking water--Contamination--United States.
- Drinking water.
- Drinking water--Health aspects--United States.
- Water quality management--United States--History.
- Water quality management.
- Water-supply--Political aspects--United States.
- Water-supply.
- Water--Purification.
- Water.
- Drinking Water.
- Water Purification.
- Water Pollution--prevention & control.
- Public Policy.
- United States.
- Drinking water--Contamination.
- Drinking water--Health aspects.
- Water-supply--Political aspects.
- Medical Subjects:
- Drinking Water.
- Water Purification.
- Water Pollution--prevention & control.
- Public Policy.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 330 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- What's wrong with what we drink
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2019.
- Summary:
- "New York Times bestselling author Seth M. Siegel shows how our drinking water got contaminated, what it may be doing to us, and what we must do to make it safe. If you thought America's drinking water problems started and ended in Flint, Michigan, think again. From big cities and suburbs to the rural heartland, chemicals linked to cancer, heart disease, obesity, birth defects, and lowered IQ routinely spill from our taps. Many are to blame: the EPA, Congress, a bipartisan coalition of powerful governors and mayors, chemical companies, and drinking water utilities -- even NASA and the Pentagon. Meanwhile, the bottled water industry has been fanning our fears about tap water, but bottled water is often no safer. The tragedy is that existing technologies could launch a new age of clean, healthy, and safe tap water for only a few dollars a week per person. Scrupulously researched, Troubled Water is full of shocking stories about contaminated water found throughout the country and about the everyday heroes who have successfully forced changes in the quality and safety of our drinking water. And it concludes with what America must do to reverse decades of neglect and play-it-safe inaction by government at all levels in order to keep our most precious resource safe"-- Provided by publisher.
- From big cities and suburbs to the rural heartland, chemicals linked to cancer, heart disease, obesity, birth defects, and lowered IQ routinely spill from our taps. The bottled water industry has been fanning our fears about tap water, but bottled water is often no safer. Siegel presents the facts about contaminated water found throughout the country--and about the everyday heroes who have successfully forced changes in the quality and safety of our drinking water. He examines what America must do to reverse decades of neglect and play-it-safe inaction by government at all levels in order to keep our most precious resource safe.--Adapted from jacket.
- Contents:
- Welcome to Hoosick Falls!
- The EPA takes control of drinking water
- An endless road to nowhere
- Pills in the water
- Plastic everywhere
- One city of many : Flint and lead in America's drinking water
- The water industry
- Pushing the EPA to do more
- Why can't we all have water like Orange County?
- New ideas needed
- What you can do now.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-318) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781250132543
- 1250132541
- OCLC:
- 1108817660
- Publisher Number:
- 40029555863
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