Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water. Peter H. Gleick

Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water



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Publisher: Island Press
Language: English
Page: 232
ISBN: 1597265287, 9781597265287

From Publishers Weekly

Tap water is safe almost everywhere in the U.S. 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. [P]ublic 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. 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 passion of a believer, Gleick makes a sound case for improving the developing world's access to and the developed world's attitude toward safe, piped drinking water purified by the natural hydrologic cycle. (June)
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At what point, Gleick wonders, did water go from being something readily and freely available at any faucet in the land to a designer commodity marketed through multi-million-dollar ad budgets? Once found within steps of nearly every public building, park, and playground, how did water fountains suddenly become as rare as working pay phones? And with plastic bottles containing vitamin enhanced, oxygen enriched, or carbonated spring water carted around like so many new appendages, why are shoppers so enthusiastically embracing a practice that is both ecologically wasteful and economically reckless? Along with a discerning consumer's demand for accountability, freshwater expert Gleick trains his scientifically objective eye on the bottled water phenomenon to debunk dubious health claims, refute questionable purity standards, and expose environmental hazards associated with the unprecedented mania to purchase what used to be a free, pure, and plentiful natural resource. As landfills overflow with plastic bottles and aquifers drain, Gleick offers a sobering yet sensible look at society's ill-considered thirst for bottled water. --Carol Haggas



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