Drinking Water (46 page)

“Ideomotor Effect,”
224

India Pale Ale,
80

Indian Constitution,
206

Indian Supreme Court,
206

Indirect Potable Reuse project,
242

International Bottled Water Association,
184

International Conference on Water and the Environment,
194

International Epidemiology Association,
90

International Monetary Fund (IMF),
192
,
202

International Space Station,
239

Irving, Washington,
25
,
27

Ishtar,
29

isotopic analysis,
130

Jackman, Hugh,
221

Jackson, Lisa,
126

Jay-Z,
238

Jeffery, Kim,
173
,
256

Jeremiah,
33

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
,
44

Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
,
142
–
43

Judah,
102
–
3

Julius Caesar,
165

K9 Quencher,
177

Kacharis of Assam,
35

Kalch-Hook,
58

Kalm, Peter,
59

Ka-ne,
38

Katju, Markandey,
207
–
8

Ka-Wai-a-ke-Akua,
38

Keep America Committee,
160

Kingsley, Charles,
94

Knight, Curtis,
18

Kobert, Rudolf,
70

Koch, Robert,
91

Kohler Company,
106

Koran,
50
–
51

lacus
,
54
,
56
,
69
,
104
,
210

Lantau Island,
73

Las Vegas Valley Water District,
229

Lawrence of Arabia
,
46
–
47
,
51

lead,
70
–
71
,
74
,
109
,
185

Leeuwenhoek, Antoni van,
90

Lethe,
34

Levinson, Marc,
247

LifeStraw,
237

Lister, Joseph,
91

Lister, Martin,
76

lithium,
37

“locavore” restaurants,
187

London Medical Gazette
,
91

London, and water management,
67
,
87
–
94

Lourdes, spring of,
39
–
43

M*A*S*H
,
146

M. C. Mehta v. Union of India
,
207

Machu Picchu,
49
,
78

Maclean’s
,
228

Macrobius,
81

Maich, Steve,
228

Malott, Matthew,
56

Mandeville, John,
30

mangroves,
233

Manhattan Company,
63
–
66

Marcellus Shale,
128

Marketplace
,
187

maximum contaminant level (MCL),
124

maximum contaminant level goals (MCLGs),
124

McCloud Watershed Council,
18
,
255
–
57

McFarland, Richard,
17
,
18

Memorandum of Agreement (New York),
248
–
49

Mercy Ship
Anastasis
,
218

methane,
127
,
129
–
30
,
131

“methane faucet fire,”
128

Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association,
105

Metropolitan Free Drinking Fountain Association,
104

miasma theory,
85
,
89
,
91
,
94
,
133

Michelangelo,
165

Mill, John Stuart,
91

Millennium Development Goal,
198
,
222

Minuit, Peter,
57

miracle standards,
40
–
43

Morning Rave
,
138

Moses,
38

Mother Jones
,
181

Mougin, Georges,
232

MTBE,
17

Muggeridge, Malcolm,
41

Muldoon, Paul,
231

Mullinix, Ralph,
141
,
154

Mulroy, Patricia,
229

Namatianus, Rutilius,
57

Napoleon III,
172

Napoleon,
78
,
113

National Coalition of American Nuns,
187

National Research Council,
115

Nestlé Waters North America,
16
–
18
,
174
–
80
,
255
–
57

“NEWater,”
241

New River,
67

New York City, and water management,
57
–
69

New York Commercial Advertiser
,
65

New York Committee on Fire and Water,
210

New York Evening Journal
,
65

Nicholson, Jack,
181

Nightingale, Florence,
94

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA),
226

Nova Group,
226
,
228

NRDC,
185
,
187

O’Toole, Peter,
46

Odin,
31

Oremus, Will,
254

Parekh, Pankaj,
125

Pasteur, Louis,
91
,
171
,
176

Paul the Deacon,
79

Payne, Richard and Thelma,
129

PCB (polychlorinated biphenyls),
120

Pepsi.
See
Aquafina

peroxide,
124

Perrier,
18
,
171
–
76
,
178
,
182

Perrier, Louis,
172

PET bottles,
180
,
186

Pet Refresh,
177

Philadelphia, and yellow fever,
61
–
62

Phlegethon,
34

Pickens, T. Boone,
231
–
32

“pixie dust,”
178

Planetary Resources,
252
–
54

PlayPump,
238
–
39

Pliny the Elder,
81
,
169

“
plumbarii
,”
70

Po Lin Monastery,
72

Poggio,
188

Poland Spring,
17
,
171
,
179
,
183

Polumbum,
30

Polyethylene terephthalate,
180

Poor Law Commission,
91
–
92

Poseidon,
38

POU,
212
–
16
,
217
,
222

pozzali
,
111

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
,
130

Procter & Gamble,
213

ProPublica,
131

PSI,
216
,
217

Public Health Acts,
94

Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002.
See
Bioterrorism Act

Punch
,
104

“puncturing,”
55

Pur,
213

Quakers,
104

Quest for Pure Water, The
,
98

Quito water fund,
250

R-1 Water,
244

Randi, James,
224

Registration Act,
89

reverse osmosis,
124
,
178
,
212
,
233
,
235
,
244

Right of Thirst,
50
–
52

Rinne, Eva-Marita,
133

RO Water.
See
reverse osmosis

Rolls, Barbara,
44
–
45

Rome, and water management,
53
–
57

Rommel, Erwin,
78

Royte, Elizabeth,
78

Sabba, Steve,
219

Safe Drinking Water Act,
74
,
83
,
183
;

amendment to,
247
;

and contaminants
125
;

focus of,
134
;

and fracking,
131
;

and nonpoint source pollution,
126
;

and public perceptions of safety,
137
;

structure of
124
;

testing,
154
;

violations of,
125

Saint Bernadette,
39
–
40

Saks,
220

Salmon of Knowledge,
31

San Pellegrino,
17
,
174

Sanitary Acts,
94

santi jal
,
35

sapa
,
71

Save Our Groundwater,
257

SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition),
146

Schmidhauser, Max,
219

Schnermann, Jurgen,
44

Schultz, Harvey,
146

Sennacherib,
102
–
3

Sextant Capital Management,
233

Sharia,
50

Sharif, Omar,
46

shigella,
76

Sikorsky helicopter plant,
150

Smith, Adam,
21
–
22
,
134

Snow, John,
87
–
91
,
94
,
133

sodium hypochlorite,
154
,
216

solar disinfection,
213

Solon of Athens,
141
–
42

Soltner, André,
175

Soubirous, Bernadette,
39
–
40

South African constitution,
208
–
9

Southern Nevada Water Authority,
229

spas,
23
,
97
,
169
–
72