Want to know the story behind our obsession with bottled water? Must read: Bottled & Sold

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Bottled and Sold shows how water has gone from being a free natural resource to one of the most successful commercial products of the last one hundred years - and why we are poorer for it. Peter Gleick, a world-renowned scientist and freshwater expert, investigates whether industry claims about the relative safety, convenience, and taste of bottled water versus tap water. And he exposes the true reasons we've turned to the bottle, from business interests and our own vanity, to the breakdown of public systems and global inequities.

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