Bottlemania: Big Business, Local Springs, and the Battle over America's Drinking Water
Elizabeth Royteamazon.com
Bottlemania: Big Business, Local Springs, and the Battle over America's Drinking Water
only about 15,600 cubic kilometers of global runoff—39 percent of the total—is accessible.
Clean water is really starting to be at a premium
More important than anything he had listed was water, free of dangerous bacilli, unpolluted by poisons human, chemical, or radioactive. Pure water was essential to his civilization, accepted like pure air. In the big cities, where even a near miss would rupture reservoirs, demolish aqueducts, and smash mains, it would be hell without water. Big cit
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