The Blue Death: Disease, Disaster, and the Water We Drink
The Blue Death: Disease, Disaster, and the Water We Drink[ THE BLUE DEATH: DISEASE, DISASTER, AND THE WATER WE DRINK ] by Morris, Robert D. (Author) Jul-31-07[ Hardcover ] by Robert D. Morris
English | 2007 | ISBN: 1851685758 | 321 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
English | 2007 | ISBN: 1851685758 | 321 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
Drinking water. In the walls, beneath the streets, around the world, it races through unseen pipes to fi ll tens of billions of glasses, cups, and bottles each day and to quench that most essential of human drives, thirst. For millions of years, intimate knowledge about the source of our water was among the most important bits of information our ancestors carried. Today that intimacy is lost. We turn on a tap and water flows as if by magic. We have come to accept the illusion as reality. Most of us have little awareness of the source of our drinking water. We assume it will be there. We assume it will be safe.
The road to disaster is paved with assumptions. The largest waterborne outbreak in U.S. history happened not centuries ago, but in 1993. Not only does waterborne disease still happen, but we don’t even know how often it occurs. Our system for detecting waterborne disease is so limited that drinking water is never even recognized as the cause in the vast majority of cases. Evidence suggests that drinking water may sicken millions of people every year in the United States.