There Will Be Water

"Pickens has promised to abide by the 50-50 rule. "I don't have any concerns about depleting the aquifer. All I'm doing is selling surplus water," he says. "I'm not about to drain all the water out of Roberts County. I have my ranch there. But I could sure take it down 50% and not hurt anybody. And it could make a lot of people a lot of money." -- from There Will Be Water by Susan Berfield in Business Week

'Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It'

"By the time I finished “Bottlemania” I thought twice about drinking any water. Among the risks: arsenic, gasoline additives, 82 different pharmaceuticals, fertilizer runoff sufficient to raise nitrate levels so that Iowa communities issue “blue baby” alerts."

--from Lisa Margonelli's book review of Elizabeth Royte's Bottlemania in Sunday's New York Times.