Blue Death The Intriguing Past and Present Danger of the Water You Drink

Name: Blue Death The Intriguing Past and Present Danger of the Water You Drink
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ISBN: 9780060730901

ISBN-10: 0060730900

ISBN-13: 9780060730901

Edition: N/A

Authors: Robert D. Morris

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During a devastating nineteenth-century cholera outbreak, English physician John Snow proved that the deadly disease could hide in a drop of water. In the twentieth century, burgeoning cities would subdue cholera and typhoid by building massive filtration plants and bubbling poisonous gas through their drinking water. But in the new millennium, the demon of waterborne disease is threatening to reemerge, and the results could be catastrophic. In this fascinating, sobering account, Dr. Robert Morris depicts the epidemics that have shaken nations, celebrates the scientists who reached into the invisible and ultimately saved millions of lives, and sounds a timely warning we dare not ignore…

Book details

List price: $16.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 8/5/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Prologue


Waterborne Killers


The Blue Death


Snow on Cholera


All Smell Is Disease


The Experimentum Crucis


The Doctor, the Priest, and the Outbreak at Golden Square


The Great Stink


Thirty Cities and Dirty Water


The Race to Cholera


The Scramble for Pure Water


The Two-Edged Sword


Spring in Milwaukee


The Hidden Seed


At War with the Invisible


Drinking the Mississippi


Death in Ontario


Surviving the Storm


The Worst Place on Earth


The Future of Water: From E. Coli to al Qaeda


Afterword: Strategies for Safe Water: A Modest Proposal


Bibliography and Notes


Acknowledgments