Bottled and Sold

Bottled and Sold
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Publisher : Island Press
Total Pages : 249
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ISBN-10 : 9781597265287
ISBN-13 : 1597265284
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)
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Book Synopsis Bottled and Sold by : Peter H. Gleick

Download or read book Bottled and Sold written by Peter H. Gleick and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2010-04-20 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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