Troubled Water Troubled Water

Troubled Water

What's Wrong with What We Drink

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Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
Politics & Current Events
RELEASED
2019
October 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
352
Pages
PUBLISHER
St. Martin's Publishing Group
SELLER
Macmillan
SIZE
3.6
MB

Customer Reviews

cdan ,

Fantastic Dive into Water Quality

This book is a great starting point for a deep dive into the largely unregulated and minimally water quality throughout the United States. Our aging infrastructure has not kept up with the changes that capitalism has brought. This book talks about a handful of cases that demonstrate gaps in the water treatment system and general polarized political malaise that is causing further failure effecting all Americans. Definitely recommend this read. It will open your eyes to what many of us have been missing.

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