Bottled and sold
Subtitle: the story behind our obsession with bottled water
By: Peter H. Gleick.
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9781597265287
Subjects: Bottled water
Description: Water went from being a free natural resource to one of the most successful commercial products of the last one hundred years. That's a big story, and water is big business.Gleick exposes the true reasons we've turned to the bottle, from fear mongering by business interests and our own vanity to the breakdown of public systems and global inequities.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.