Parched City - by Emma M Jones (Paperback)

Name: Parched City - by Emma M Jones (Paperback)
SKU: 1010864590
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Safe drinking water is essential to daily life.
About the Author: Emma M. Jones is a Dubliner by birth and a Londoner by chance.
361 Pages
History, Europe

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Plunder, pollution, profiteering: how centuries of wars over London s drinking water turned a leading global metropolis into a Parched City.
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Book Synopsis

Safe drinking water is essential to daily life. Meeting that demand with bottled water is a luxury too far, argues Emma Jones. She is not a lone critic of the packaged water industry. However, this author looks to history for solutions to a major sustainability problem: in the design, management and use of the city. With original stories from London's archives, Parched City tracks drinking-water obsessions through a popular architectural history tale.,

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Jenny Jones - London Assembly Member for the Green Party - Ditching bottled water is a win win situation; it's kind to your pocket and to the planet. In the UK, unlike many parts of the world, we are lucky enough to have clean water in every home and yet we don't realise our good fortune. Parched City explains how the good fortune happened, and why bottled water is an extravagance too far.,

About the Author

Emma M. Jones is a Dubliner by birth and a Londoner by chance. She studied architectural history at the Bartlett, University College London and currently works in modern medical history research at Queen Mary, University of London.
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Specifications

Dimensions (Overall): 8.3 Inches (H) x 5.4 Inches (W) x .9 Inches (D)

Weight: .95 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 361

Genre: History

Sub-Genre: Europe

Publisher: Zer0 Books

Theme: Great Britain, General

Format: Paperback

Author: Emma M Jones

Language: English

Street Date: June 16, 2013

TCIN: 1010864590

UPC: 9781780991580

Item Number (DPCI): 247-08-4269

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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