Unbottled : The Fight Against Plastic Water and for Water Justice, Hardcover ...

by Daniel Jaffee

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Unbottled : The Fight Against Plastic Water and for Water Justice, Hardcover by Jaffee, Daniel, ISBN 0520306619, ISBN-13 9780520306615, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US An exploration of bottled water's impact on social justice and sustainability, and how diverse movements are fighting back. In just four decades, bottled water has transformed from a luxury niche item into a ubiquitous consumer product, representing a $300 billion market dominated by global corporations. It sits at the convergence of a mounting ecological crisis of single-use plastic waste and climate change, a social crisis of affordable access to safe drinking water, and a struggle over the fate of public water systems. Unbottled examines the vibrant movements that have emerged to question the need for bottled water and challenge its growth in North America and worldwide. Drawing on extensive interviews with activists, residents, public officials, and other participants in controversies ranging from bottled water's role in unsafe tap water crises to groundwater extraction for bottling in rural communities, Daniel Jaffee asks what this commodity's meteoric growth means for social inequality, sustainability, and the human right to water. Unbottled profiles campaigns to reclaim the tap and addresses the challenges of ending dependence on packaged water in places where safe water is not widely accessible. Clear and compelling, it assesses the prospects for the movements fighting plastic water and working t

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2023
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780520306615
• Condition: Fine

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