Seth M. Siegel

Troubled Water (eBook, ePUB)

What's Wrong with What We Drink

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: St. Martin's Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781250132550
• Artikelnr.: 57013462

Autorenporträt

Seth M. Siegel

Inhaltsangabe

PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
. PART I .
A BROKEN SYSTEM
CHAPTER 1
Welcome to Hoosick Falls!
CHAPTER 2
The EPA Takes Control of Drinking Water
CHAPTER 3
An Endless Road to Nowhere
. PART II .
THE CHALLENGE
CHAPTER 4
Pills in the Water
CHAPTER 5
Plastic Everywhere
CHAPTER 6
One City of Many: Flint and Lead in America's Drinking Water
CHAPTER 7
The Water Industry
. PART III .
SOLUTIONS
CHAPTER 8
Pushing the EPA to Do More
CHAPTER 9
Why Can't We All Have Water Like Orange County?
CHAPTER 10
New Ideas Needed
CHAPTER 11
What You Can Do Now
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTERVIEW LIST
NOTES
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX