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Troubled Water

What's Wrong with What We Drink

Audiobook (Includes supplementary content)
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1 of 1 copy available

"Tim Campbell narrates this audiobook in a laid-back, nicely paced manner that makes Siegel's scary facts about the nation's problematic drinking water just a bit easier to swallow...This audiobook is important to anyone who drinks water." — AudioFile Magazine
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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    • AudioFile Magazine
      Tim Campbell narrates this audiobook in a laid-back, nicely paced manner that makes Siegel's scary facts about the nation's problematic drinking water just a bit easier to swallow. The audiobook can be summed up pretty succinctly: If you think your drinking water is safe, chances are you're wrong. Pipes corrode and leach contaminants, polluters have more and better lobbyists than regular citizens do, the government isn't a great regulator, and new potentially dangerous chemicals continually enter our water supplies. It is not all dark, though. Siegel and the deep-voiced Campbell offer solutions ranging from filters for homes to new funding schemes for communities. This audiobook is important to anyone who drinks water. Campbell's relaxed performance style is a plus. G.S. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine

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