Water 4.0 : the past, present, and future of the world's most vital resource
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New Haven :
Yale University Press ,
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Water supply in Rome, the world's first metropolis
- 2. The bucket era
- 3. Europe's sewage crisis
- 4. Growing old thanks to water treatment
- 5. Burning rivers, fading paint, and the clean water movement
- 6. The chlorine dilemma
- 7. "Drains to bay"
- 8. Traces of trouble : hormones, pharmaceuticals, and toxic chemicals
- 9. Paying for the fourth revolution
- 10. The toilet-to-tap solution
- 11. Turning to the sea for drinking water
- 12. A different tomorrow
- 13. Reflections