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Parched City

Emma Jones author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Collective Ink

Published:28th Jun '13

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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.

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.

ISBN: 9781780991580

Dimensions: 216mm x 141mm x 21mm

Weight: 414g

362 pages