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Parched City
About this book
Safe drinking water is essential to daily life. Meeting that demand with bottled water is a luxury too far, argues Emma Jones. She is not a lone critic of the packaged water industry. However, this author looks to history for solutions to a major sustainability problem: in the design, management and use of the city. With original stories from London's archives, Parched City tracks drinking-water obsessions through a popular architectural history tale.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter One: Wells, Conduits and Cordial Waters: drinking water sketches A.D. 43–1800
- Chapter Two: Private Water and Public Health 1800–1858
- Chapter Three: Philanthropic Fountains 1852–1875
- Chapter Four: The Birth of Bacteriology and the Death of Corporate Water 1866–1899
- Chapter Five: ChloriNation 1905–1933
- Chapter Six: Blitz on the Board 1937–1945
- Chapter Seven: Purity and Poison 1948–1969
- Chapter Eight: Maggie Thatcher, Jane Fonda and the Water Cooler 1973–2000
- Chapter Nine: Wasteland and Council Pop: tracking the anti-bottled water zeitgeist 2010–11
- Chapter Ten: 21st Century Tap Water 2011–2012
- Conclusions and Questions
- Notes