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Drinking Water

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by James Salzman


  cyber attacks, 146

  Dar es Salaam Water and Sewerage Corporation, 250–51

  Dasani, 175, 176, 178, 182

  Dassault, 232

  Daughton, Christian, 122

  DDT, 121

  de León, Juan Ponce, 25–28

  de Oviedo, Gonzalo Fernández, 28

  Deer Park, 171

  Del Posto, 188

  DeNileon, Gay Porter, 152

  Department of Homeland Security, 148

  desalination, 233–36

  Deuteronomy, 85

  Diamonds Are Forever, 170

  diarrhea, in American Civil War, 78;

  and Bangladesh, 114, 117;

  and cholera, 87;

  in Ethiopia, 197;

  and military, 237;

  in Milwaukee, 110;

  and POU treatments, 214;

  and Safe Drinking Water Act, 154;

  and travelers, 76;

  and WaterGuard, 213

  Dickens, Charles, 94

  dicofol, 121

  diesel, 237

  Dimock, 128–29, 130

  Dinkins, David, 248

  Disraeli, Benjamin, 94

  distillation, 233–34

  distribution system, 143, 144, 146;

  and backflows, 150, 177;

  and Croton, 68;

  and privatization, 201;

  Roman, 54, 210;

  safe water challenge, 76, 102–4;

  and security, 149, 157;

  Tea Water, 60;

  and water pipes, 108

  Dixie Cups, 73

  dowsing, 223

  Dr. Strangelove, 160

  Dragseth, Doris, 16, 17, 257

  drinking fountains, and bottled water, 180;

  demise of, 23, 162, 180;

  and segregation, 82;

  rise of, 104–8;

  and University of Central Florida stadium, 161

  Drystal Geyser, 138

  Dublin Statement on Water and Sustainable Development, 194

  E. coli, 76, 110

  Earth Liberation Front, 18, 22

  East Jersey Water Company, 101

  Eco-Fina bottle, 186

  ecosystem services, 249–50

  Eley, Susannah, 89

  Elisha, 97–98

  “emergent contaminants,” 122

  Emu Downs Wind Farm, 234

  endocrine disruptors, 119–21, 125

  Environmental Protection Agency, and arsenic, 115–16;

  and Bioterrorism Act, 152–53;

  and brine, 235;

  and Dimock, 130;

  “emergent contaminants,” 122;

  and current infrastructure, 245;

  and the Safe Drinking Water Act, 124–25, 183;

  and testing, 74, 83;

  and WaterISAC, 153

  Equitable Payment for Water Services, 250–51

  Ereshkigal, 29

  Evian, 176, 179, 180

  Farnelli, Pat, 128

  Fels, Bill, 177

  Ferrarelle, 169, 172–73

  ferric sulfate, 213

  Fiji Water, 181–84, 187

  filtration, 147, 148, 149, 212;

  and sand, 98, 99;

  and John Snow, 133

  Finn, 31

  Fishman, Charles, 198, 240

  Fixx, Jim, 174

  fluoridation, 159–60

  fluorine, 159–60

  Food & Water Watch, 48, 203

  Food and Drug Administration (FDA), 175, 183, 185

  Fortescue, John, 79

  Fountain of Youth, 26–28

  Fox, Josh, 129

  fracking, See hydraulic fracturing.

  Franklin, Benjamin, 61–62, 171, 251

  Free Basic Water, 208–9

  Free Drinking Water Association, 105

  French Academy of Sciences, 98

  Frontinus, 55, 71

  Gaia, 38

  Ganges, 35, 207

  Garg, Shri S. K., 206–7

  Gasland, 129

  GATT, 227

  General Comment 15, 204–5, 206

  Geological Survey (2006), 121

  germ theory of disease, 74, 87, 91, 97, 133

  “Ghost Map,” 89

  giardia, 76, 213

  Gihon Spring, 102–3

  Gleick, Peter, 96, 179, 236

  Glennon, Robert, 203

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 165

  Goodwin, George, 87, 96

  Google Earth, 221

  Government Accountability Office, 149

  Graham, Jim, 246

  Granier, Alphonse, 172

  gray water, 243–44

  Great Conduit, 67, 104

  Great Lakes–St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact, 229

  Great Sanitation Awakening (Awakening), 87, 94, 98

  “Great Stink, The,” 87

  Greenspan, Alan, 128

  H2O for ME, 257

  H2O, 225, 227, 228

  H2Ocean, 235

  Halliburton Corporation, 127, 129, 130–31

  “Halliburton Loophole,” 131

  Halsey Taylor Company, 106

  Hamilton, Alexander, 62–63

  Hannibal, 171

  Harmsworth, St. John, 172

  Harrison, Scott, 216, 217–22

  Harry Potter series, 29

  Hawkins, George, 246

  Haws Sanitary Drinking Faucet Company, 106

  Haws, Luther, 106–7

  healing powers, 36–37, 41, 164

  Helicobacter pylori, 83

  Hezekiah, 102–3

  Hippocrates, 70, 80, 81

  holy water, 23, 33, 36–43, 166–70

  Hone, Philip, 68

  Hoover, J. Edgar, 142

  Hotel Online Special Report, 177

  Huaiz-nan Tzu, 31

  humors, 84

  Hunt, Elizabeth, 141

  “hydraulic civilization,” 78

  hydraulic fracturing, 127–31

  hyponatremia, 138–39

  icebergs, 232–33,

  “Ideomotor Effect,” 224

  India Pale Ale, 80

  Indian Constitution, 206

  Indian Supreme Court, 206

  Indirect Potable Reuse project, 242

  International Bottled Water Association, 184

  International Conference on Water and the Environment, 194

  International Epidemiology Association, 90

  International Monetary Fund (IMF), 192, 202

  International Space Station, 239

  Irving, Washington, 25, 27

  Ishtar, 29

  isotopic analysis, 130

  Jackman, Hugh, 221

  Jackson, Lisa, 126

  Jay-Z, 238

  Jeffery, Kim, 173, 256

  Jeremiah, 33

  Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 44

  Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 142–43

  Judah, 102–3

  Julius Caesar, 165

  K9 Quencher, 177

  Kacharis of Assam, 35

  Kalch-Hook, 58

  Kalm, Peter, 59

  Ka-ne, 38

  Katju, Markandey, 207–8

  Ka-Wai-a-ke-Akua, 38

  Keep America Committee, 160

  Kingsley, Charles, 94

  Knight, Curtis, 18

  Kobert, Rudolf, 70

  Koch, Robert, 91

  Kohler Company, 106

  Koran, 50–51

  lacus, 54, 56, 69, 104, 210

  Lantau Island, 73

  Las Vegas Valley Water District, 229

  Lawrence of Arabia, 46–47, 51

  lead, 70–71, 74, 109, 185

  Leeuwenhoek, Antoni van, 90

  Lethe, 34

  Levinson, Marc, 247

  LifeStraw, 237

  Lister, Joseph, 91

  Lister, Martin, 76

  lithium, 37

  “locavore” restaurants, 187

  London Medical Gazette, 91

  London, and water management, 67, 87–94
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  Lourdes, spring of, 39–43

  M*A*S*H, 146

  M. C. Mehta v. Union of India, 207

  Machu Picchu, 49, 78

  Maclean’s, 228

  Macrobius, 81

  Maich, Steve, 228

  Malott, Matthew, 56

  Mandeville, John, 30

  mangroves, 233

  Manhattan Company, 63–66

  Marcellus Shale, 128

  Marketplace, 187

  maximum contaminant level (MCL), 124

  maximum contaminant level goals (MCLGs), 124

  McCloud Watershed Council, 18, 255–57

  McFarland, Richard, 17, 18

  Memorandum of Agreement (New York), 248–49

  Mercy Ship Anastasis, 218

  methane, 127, 129–30, 131

  “methane faucet fire,” 128

  Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association, 105

  Metropolitan Free Drinking Fountain Association, 104

  miasma theory, 85, 89, 91, 94, 133

  Michelangelo, 165

  Mill, John Stuart, 91

  Millennium Development Goal, 198, 222

  Minuit, Peter, 57

  miracle standards, 40–43

  Morning Rave, 138

  Moses, 38

  Mother Jones, 181

  Mougin, Georges, 232

  MTBE, 17

  Muggeridge, Malcolm, 41

  Muldoon, Paul, 231

  Mullinix, Ralph, 141, 154

  Mulroy, Patricia, 229

  Namatianus, Rutilius, 57

  Napoleon III, 172

  Napoleon, 78, 113

  National Coalition of American Nuns, 187

  National Research Council, 115

  Nestlé Waters North America, 16–18, 174–80, 255–57

  “NEWater,” 241

  New River, 67

  New York City, and water management, 57–69

  New York Commercial Advertiser, 65

  New York Committee on Fire and Water, 210

  New York Evening Journal, 65

  Nicholson, Jack, 181

  Nightingale, Florence, 94

  North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), 226

  Nova Group, 226, 228

  NRDC, 185, 187

  O’Toole, Peter, 46

  Odin, 31

  Oremus, Will, 254

  Parekh, Pankaj, 125

  Pasteur, Louis, 91, 171, 176

  Paul the Deacon, 79

  Payne, Richard and Thelma, 129

  PCB (polychlorinated biphenyls), 120

  Pepsi. See Aquafina

  peroxide, 124

  Perrier, 18, 171–76, 178, 182

  Perrier, Louis, 172

  PET bottles, 180, 186

  Pet Refresh, 177

  Philadelphia, and yellow fever, 61–62

  Phlegethon, 34

  Pickens, T. Boone, 231–32

  “pixie dust,” 178

  Planetary Resources, 252–54

  PlayPump, 238–39

  Pliny the Elder, 81, 169

  “plumbarii,” 70

  Po Lin Monastery, 72

  Poggio, 188

  Poland Spring, 17, 171, 179, 183

  Polumbum, 30

  Polyethylene terephthalate, 180

  Poor Law Commission, 91–92

  Poseidon, 38

  POU, 212–16, 217, 222

  pozzali, 111

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 130

  Procter & Gamble, 213

  ProPublica, 131

  PSI, 216, 217

  Public Health Acts, 94

  Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002. See Bioterrorism Act

  Punch, 104

  “puncturing,” 55

  Pur, 213

  Quakers, 104

  Quest for Pure Water, The, 98

  Quito water fund, 250

  R-1 Water, 244

  Randi, James, 224

  Registration Act, 89

  reverse osmosis, 124, 178, 212, 233, 235, 244

  Right of Thirst, 50–52

  Rinne, Eva-Marita, 133

  RO Water. See reverse osmosis

  Rolls, Barbara, 44–45

  Rome, and water management, 53–57

  Rommel, Erwin, 78

  Royte, Elizabeth, 78

  Sabba, Steve, 219

  Safe Drinking Water Act, 74, 83, 183;

  amendment to, 247;

  and contaminants 125;

  focus of, 134;

  and fracking, 131;

  and nonpoint source pollution, 126;

  and public perceptions of safety, 137;

  structure of 124;

  testing, 154;

  violations of, 125

  Saint Bernadette, 39–40

  Saks, 220

  Salmon of Knowledge, 31

  San Pellegrino, 17, 174

  Sanitary Acts, 94

  santi jal, 35

  sapa, 71

  Save Our Groundwater, 257

  SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition), 146

  Schmidhauser, Max, 219

  Schnermann, Jurgen, 44

  Schultz, Harvey, 146

  Sennacherib, 102–3

  Sextant Capital Management, 233

  Sharia, 50

  Sharif, Omar, 46

  shigella, 76

  Sikorsky helicopter plant, 150

  Smith, Adam, 21–22, 134

  Snow, John, 87–91, 94, 133

  sodium hypochlorite, 154, 216

  solar disinfection, 213

  Solon of Athens, 141–42

  Soltner, André, 175

  Soubirous, Bernadette, 39–40

  South African constitution, 208–9

  Southern Nevada Water Authority, 229

  spas, 23, 97, 169–72

  Spork, Otto, 233

  Squaw Valley Creek Watershed, 256

  Stewart, R. J., 38

  “Story of Bottled Water, The,” 180

  Strange, Jennifer Lea, 138

  Stuyvesant, Peter, 58

  Styx, 34

  Sullivan, John, 150

  Sunstein, Cass, 118

  Super Bowl, 146

  Tahoe, Lake, 17

  “Take Back the Tap,” 188

  Talmud, 50, 85

  Tammuz, 29

  Tan, Khaiting, 241

  Tantalus, 35–36

  TARP, 109

  Tea Water Pump, 59, 61

  Tea Water, 60, 65

  Technical World Magazine, 72

  Thompson, Jim, 227

  Tian Tan Buddha fountain, 72, 73, 132

  “toilet-to-tap,” 240–43

  Toowoomba Water Futures Project, 241

  trihalomethanes, 119

  Tring Dayak people, 35

  trout, 154

  tubewells, 114–18

  Tuxedo, The, 143

  typhoid, 83, 87, 95, 97, 100, 131

  Uhlmann, David, 125

  ultraviolet light, 124, 154, 213

  UN General Assembly, 48, 205

  UNESCO, 110

  United Church of Canada, 187

  United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), 114

  United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 204

  United Nations Human Development Index, 216

  United Nations, and resolution on drinking water, 48

  University of Central Florida stadium, 189

  V for Vendetta, 143

  Valencia, Pablo, 77

  vectigal, 54, 56, 69, 71, 210

  Vegetius, 78

  Venice, 111–112

  Veolia Environnement, 203

  vestal virgins, 33

  Vichy, 23, 165, 170, 171

  Virgin Galactic, 252

  Vitruvius, 70–71

  Vittel, 170, 171

  Wachusett Reservoir, 147

  Wai-ni-dula (Water of Solace), 34

  Walcot, William, 98

  Wales, temple complex, 36

  Water 1st,
257

  Water Acts, 94

  water attacks, 145

  water hammer, 146

  Water Information Sharing and Analysis Center (WaterISAC), 153

  Water Services Act, 209

  Water Standard, 235

  water, aversion to, 78–80;

  chilled, 107;

  and developing countries, 196–99;

  geological influences, 164–65;

  infrastructure, 109;

  poisoning of in wartime, 141–42;

  prescription drugs, 121–22;

  and terrorism, 142;

  and war, 78

  WaterAid, 239

  “water deprivation,” 198

  WaterGuard, 213

  WaterMill, 238

  Waters, Alice, 187–88

  “Water Works Money,” 60

  Weather Underground, 142

  Webster, Noah, 95

  Well of Youth, 30

  Welles, Orson, 174

  Wellington, Susan, 183

  wells, 49–51, in Bangladesh, 114–17;

  and bottled water, 170;

  and Civil War, 142;

  and Cochabamba, 211;

  and Coke, 246;

  and the drinking fountain, 104;

  explosion of, 128;

  and Lawrence of Arabia, 46;

  in London, 67;

  in New Amsterdam/New York, 57–62;

  in Old Testament, 77–78;

  and pharmaceuticals, 121;

  and POU, 214, 216;

  in Rome, 69;

  sacred, 33, 36–39, 170;

  spiritual nature of, 164, 166–67;

  and Babylonian Talmud, 85

  Wiesenberger, Arthur von, 181

  Windram, Ken, 244

  Wittfogel, Karl, 78

  Woof Water, 177

  World Bank Development Marketplace Award, 238

  World Bank, 114, 192

  World Health Organization, and arsenic, 115–16, 134

  World Wildlife Fund, 250–51

  Yggdrasil, 31, 36

  Yorubaland, 81, 133, 134, 135

  Zakarian, Geoffrey, 188

  Zeus, 38

  Zimbabwe, and water, 51, 85

  JAMES SALZMAN holds the Samuel Mordecai chair in the School of Law and the Nicholas Institute Professor chair in the School of the Environment at Duke University. He has written extensively on the topics of environmental conservation, population growth, and climate change. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.

 

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