Summary
Environmental epidemiologist Morris chronicles the at times frightening story of our drinking water. He recounts the epidemics that have shaken cities and nations, the scientists who reached into the invisible and emerged with controversial truths that would save millions of lives, and the economic... Full description
- 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
- Thirsty 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
- Epilogue. Strategies for safe water : a modest proposal.