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Advertising campaigns Bottled water industry Branding (Marketing) Business planning Drinking water Contamination United States Drinking water Health aspects United States International business International business enterprises Management Water quality management United States History Water-supply Political aspects United StatesPiper, Karen Lynnea
Summary: "There's Money in Thirst," reads a headline in the New York Times. The CEO of Nestlé, purveyor of bottled water, heartily agrees. It is important to give water a market value, he says in a promotional video, so "we're all aware that it has a price." But for those who have no access to clean water, a fifth of the world's population, the price is thirst. This is the frightening landscape that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333 PIPPearson, Ridley.
Summary: A dead search-and-rescue team member and unexplained illness at a local water-bottling plant that sets off biohazard warnings may have something in common as a Sun Valley sheriff follows threads of questionable evidence to expose a domestic terrorist attack.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M PEASummary: Is access to clean drinking water a basic human right, or a commodity that should be bought and sold like any other article of commerce? Stephanie Soechtig exams the big business of bottled water. Viewers get a behind-the-scenes look into the unregulated and unseen world of an industry that aims to privatize and sell back the one resource that ought never to become a commodity: our water. Here...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disinformation Co. 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TAPSummary: On a British sitcom, two characters bottled tap water and sold it as Peckham Spring Water. More recently, Coca-Cola launched its purified-water lifestyle drink, Dasani, in the U.K. The connection was not overlooked. This program tracks Dasani's progressive PR nightmare in Britain-first as newspapers screamed "Coke Sells Tap Water for 95p," and then as Coca-Cola recalled 500,000 bottles due to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Siegel, Seth M.
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Seth M. Siegel shows how our drinking water got contaminated, what it may be doing to us, and what we must do to make it safe. If you thought America's drinking water problems started and ended in Flint, Michigan, thinkagain. From big cities and suburbs to the rural heartland, chemicals linked to cancer, heart disease, obesity, birth defects, and lowered IQ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2019