Wellsprings: A Natural History of Bottled Spring Waters
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (922 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0813536146 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-09 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Even as fuel prices climb, many people are still willing to pay more for a gallon of bottled water than they are for the equivalent in gasoline. Per capita consumption in the United States now tops fifteen gallons per year with sales over $5 billion in 2002. But despite its growing popularity, many people cannot quite put their finger on just why they prefer bottled water to the much less expensive tap variety. The book chronicles the history of the bottled water industry in America from its beginnings in Europe hundreds of years ago to the present day. The fact is most people know very little about the natural beverage that they drink and enjoy. Finally, Chapelle shows how the bottled water industry uses this natural history, together with the perceived health benefits of spring waters, to market their products.Accessibly written and well illustrated, Wellsprings is both a revealing account and a user’s guide to natural spring waters. Subsequent chapters describe the chemical characteristics that make some waters desirable, and provide an overview of the geologic circumstances that produce them. Wellsprings explains how these geologic conditions vary throughout t
Well written book about the bottled water business, especially Well written book about the bottled water business, especially from an historical perspective.I personally am interested in the role of springs and spring water in our history of water and ground water development, so Francis Chapelle provides some interesting comparisons.
Many people consider ground water deep beneath their feet as mysterious, perhaps even supernatural. To clarify matters, hydrogeologist Frank Chapelle has written a definitive history and science of subsurface water in his Wellsprings, a book both accessible to the lay reader while being filled with startling nuggets of information pleasing to the professional water scientist.