The Blue Death: The Intriguing Past and Present Danger of the Water You Drink
The Blue Death: The Intriguing Past and Bestow Danger of the Water You Drink Books
- ISBN13: 9780060730901
- Shape up: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
During a devastating nineteenth-century cholera outbreak, English physician John Snow proved that the deadly disease may possibly 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 consequences may possibly 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 about the natural and man-made hazards bestow in the water we drink.
Buy Cheap The Blue Death: The Intriguing Past and Bestow Danger of the Water You Drink Online
Related posts:
- How To Present At Meetings
- The Frog Who Croaked Blue: Synesthesia and the Mixing of the Senses
- A Bolt From the Blue: Coping with Disasters and Acute Traumas
- Hidden Dangers in What We Eat and Drink: A Lifelong Guide to Healthy Living
- Drink Your Greens! Reduce your risk of cancer, heart disease, fatigue, and more!
It is no doubt inevitable for life to go on without water, but we take for contracted its pure quality and how it has evolved to get here. Morris has done a fantastic job putting a spotlight towards drinking water in a way that everyone can know. I am impressed in how he has described its history up to where we stand in our challenges in maintenance it safe today, with chlorination treatment, through suspenseful tales that literally takes us back in time. Reading this book has certainly given me a new pair of eyes towards the importance of clean water and how highly responsible the water system is to the broadcast health, moreover the gastrointestinal health. I found it fascinating also that something we take for contracted in our everyday lives had to go through so many trials and deaths for officials to finally realize that we need to exchange the way we distribute and expel water. This is certainly a must read book and I highly urge it.
Rating: 4 / 5
The Blue Death: The Intriguing Past and Bestow Danger of the Water You Drink reveals the vital risk to broadcast health from contaminated drinking water supplies. Broadcast exposure to chemical, biological, and pharmaceutical contamination is getting larger through legal dumping by industries, and emission of household waste into streams, waterways and landfills; reaching shocking proportions that the reader would associate only with third world countries. The height of alarm reaches beyond storylines of science fiction realizing the morbid truth that this danger is real and bestow.
Rating: 5 / 5
The first part of the book is a excellent narrative about the quest to identify the source of cholera. The second part is less cohesive but has many fascinating bits about modern water supply and treatment.
Rating: 4 / 5
Robert Morris’ book is fantastic for anyone who is interested in issues of drinking water supply and safety. For that reason I give it five stars.
I was puzzled by a major omission. Morris mentions repeatedly that populace growth is straining the water supply. Why is there no follow-up on this? In the book’s conclusion, Morris makes seven proposals to guard hostile to bestow and future threats to safe drinking water. Populace control does not even appear on the list. It should have been #1. Without populace control, most of Morris’ proposals either won’t be possible or won’t work to reduce the problem. If we don’t take steps soon to stabilize world populace, waterborne disease may well become one of the major Grim Reapers doing it for us.
Morris also discusses how strained municipal and other local government resources are in the U.S., making it trying to invest in necessary water infrastructure. I want to top out that a major reason governments are so strained is that in the last few decades a huge percentage of local revenues has gone to automobile infrastructure–roads, highways, parking lots, and the like. America sooner or later needs to rethink its like affair with the automobile. For more on this, see Kunstler’s book Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Man-Made Landscape and Shoup’s book The High Cost of Free Parking.
Rating: 5 / 5
The first section of this book reads like a mystery thriller only it was right of the situation in London just 100 years before most of us were born. The rampant use of denial, obfuscation, and just plain lies by the medical and political power base is incredible. That is “huge egos running wild”! They expressed themselves or failed to express like the EPA at the expense of the health and lives of many people. The book “Reclaiming Our Health” by John Robbins, 1996, shows it is still going on today. Just take note of all the repeated ads for pharmaceuticals you don’t need on the network news broadcasts each evening. Critical thought is necessary to protect yourself and your loved ones. Dr. John Snow was a Master of critical thought, a gift to the human race! I have read approximately 2 to 3 books a week all my adult life and seldom read fiction. The best books are often first mentioned in a book I read. Elizabeth Royte’s brilliant book “Bottlemania” tipped me off to this book. Both are must reads. As stated in Royte’s book, “We can live without oil, but not clean water”.
Blessings on both authors and all their loved ones! They have served their fellow humans very well!
Rating: 5 / 5