Troubled Water, Seth M. Siegel
Troubled Water, Seth M. Siegel
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Troubled Water
What's Wrong with What We Drink

Author: Seth M. Siegel

Narrator: Tim Campbell

Unabridged: 9 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/01/2019

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

"Tim Campbell narrates this audiobook in a laid-back, nicely paced manner that makes Siegel's scary facts about the nation's problematic drinking water just a bit easier to swallow...This audiobook is important to anyone who drinks water." — AudioFile Magazine

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.

About Seth M. Siegel

SETH M. SIEGEL is a lawyer, an activist, a serial entrepreneur and the author of the New York Times bestseller Let There Be Water. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, and in leading publications in Europe and Asia. He has spoken on water policy hundreds of times around the world and in Congress, the United Nations, the World Bank, and at dozens of leading universities. He is married and lives in New York City.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Katie on March 23, 2020

As a person who has studied water policy and worked in a water division for state government, this book fell so short in my opinion. I can see why it received a lot of positive reviews, as it does read easily for the general public. But unfortunately, similar to other water books, Siegel oversimplif......more

Goodreads review by Rick on August 08, 2022

Interesting. Feel like it relies a little bit on shock value. Fairly condemning luck at public waterworks. I don’t think I have enough knowledge base here to really evaluate this in context......more

Goodreads review by Marzie on October 01, 2019

The USGS (United States Geological Service) has an interesting Water Science School document called "The Water in You: Water in the Human Body." In it we learn that all told, the human body is composed of about 60% water. Some organs and tissues have higher water content than others, for instance ou......more

I’m never drinking water again......more

Goodreads review by Lauren on June 17, 2022

I don’t think this is a perfect description of our current drinking water industry and it is definitely bias against public water providers but at the same time I think it can be really beneficial. It highlights some of the biggest issues like bottled water, lack of contamination regulation, inabili......more