Plastic Water: The Social and Material Life of Bottled Water

by Gay Hawkins, Kane Race, Emily Potter

How and why branded bottles of water have insinuated themselves into our daily lives, and what the implications are for safe urban water supplies.

How did branded bottles of water insinuate themselves into our daily lives? Why did water become an economic good--no longer a common resource but a commercial product, in industry parlance a "fast moving consumer good," or FMCG? Plastic Water examines the processes behind this transformation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262029413
• ISBN13: 9780262029414
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher