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100 1  Morris, Robert D.,|d1956-|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       names/n2006085607 
245 14 The blue death :|bdisease, disaster and the water we drink
       /|cRobert D. Morris. 
250    1st ed. 
264  1 New York, NY :|bHarperCollins Publishers,|c[2007] 
264  4 |c©2007 
300    310 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references. 
505 0  Waterborne killers -- The blue death -- Snow on cholera --
       All smell is disease -- The Experimentum Crucis -- The 
       doctor, the priest, and the outbreak at Golden Square -- 
       The great stink -- Thirsty cities and dirty water -- The 
       race to cholera -- The scramble for pure water -- The two-
       edged sword -- Spring in Milwaukee -- The hidden seed -- 
       At war with the invisible -- Drinking the Mississippi -- 
       Death in Ontario -- Surviving the storm -- The worst place
       on earth -- The future of water : from E. Coli to al Qaeda
       -- Epilogue. Strategies for safe water : a modest 
       proposal. 
520    Environmental epidemiologist Morris chronicles the at 
       times frightening story of our drinking water. He recounts
       the epidemics that have shaken cities and nations, the 
       scientists who reached into the invisible and emerged with
       controversial truths that would save millions of lives, 
       and the economic and political forces that opposed these 
       researchers in a ferocious war of ideas. In the gritty 
       world of nineteenth-century England, a physician proved 
       that cholera could be hidden in a drop of water. In the 
       twentieth century, burgeoning cities subdued cholera and 
       typhoid by building massive filtration plants, and 
       bubbling poisonous chlorine gas through their drinking 
       water. However, in the new millennium, waterborne disease 
       is threatening to reemerge, and research has linked 
       chlorine treatment with cancer and stillbirths. Morris 
       dispels notions of fail-safe water systems, revealing some
       shocking truths: miles of leaking water mains, constantly 
       evolving microorganisms, and the looming threat of 
       bioterrorism.--From publisher description. 
650  0 Waterborne infection|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       subjects/sh85145672|xHistory.|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/subjects/sh99005024 
650  7 Waterborne infection.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/
       1172522 
650  7 History.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/958235 
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