num_pages: 160
description: An informative and original exploration of how we have consumed water throughout history and our efforts to make it safe and palatable. Ian Miller describes how water was used for medicinal purposes and how it became commercialized over the past two centuries leading to the bottled mineral water widely available today. He also reminds us how people still encounter problems accessing clean drinking water. A valuable new account of a substance that seems prosaic while you have it but the most precious thing in the world when you do not.
language: English
title: Water: A Global History
publisher: Reaktion Books