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Peter Gleick knows water. A world-renowned scientist and freshwater expert, Gleick is a MacArthur Foundation 鈥済enius,鈥� and according to the BBC, an environmental visionary. And he drinks from the tap. Why don鈥檛 the rest of us?
 
Bottled and Sold shows how water went from being a free natural resource to one of the most successful commercial products of the last one hundred years鈥攁nd why we are poorer for it. It鈥檚 a big story and water is big business. Every second of every day in the United States, a thousand people buy a plastic bottle of water, and every second of every day a thousand more throw one of those bottles away. That adds up to more than thirty billion bottles a year and tens of billions of dollars of sales.
 
Are there legitimate reasons to buy all those bottles? With a scientist鈥檚 eye and a natural storyteller鈥檚 wit, Gleick investigates whether industry claims about the relative safety, convenience, and taste of bottled versus tap hold water. And he exposes the true reasons we鈥檝e turned to the bottle, from fearmongering by business interests and our own vanity to the breakdown of public systems and global inequities.
 
鈥淒esigner鈥� H2O may be laughable, but the debate over commodifying water is deadly serious. It comes down to society鈥檚 choices about human rights, the role of government and free markets, the importance of being 鈥済reen,鈥� and fundamental values. Gleick gets to the heart of the bottled water craze, exploring what it means for us to bottle and sell our most basic necessity.