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.
