Title: The water in the history
Author: Giuseppe Altamore
Publisher: Sugarco editions
A text to reflect on the fate of a fragile resource, become exhausted because of waste and mismanagement. A resource contention that, such as oil, is listed on the Stock Exchange, subject to financial speculation, and threatens to unleash real wars, like the one being fought by 1948 between Israel and Arab countries.
A story that gets lost in the myth of the Flood, present in all cultures and at all latitudes, to land in the era of the commodification of life itself. A book to learn about the wonders of Roman aqueducts, the old supply systems, the drainage tunnels of the Etruscans, the qanat foggara in the desert and collect millions of drops that generate inexhaustible sources and verdant oasis.
A journey through centuries of history steeped in technical knowledge is still in use and knowledge that could help humanity to find a solution to the growing water crisis that is gripping the planet. Read pages devoted to Greek philosophy was first launched by binding to the most valuable of the four elements.
You will discover how and why for centuries we have not washed for fear of disease, until the discovery of hygiene, microbes, the advent of the great epidemics of cholera-related contaminated water that marked the construction of the aqueducts in the nineteenth century.
Great work done by private companies are often doomed to profit offering the service only to those who could pay. Above you will find much food for thought and a lot of reasons for outrage at those who would like to get their hands on the most precious of human goods.
The water was the matrix of life. The water that moves the wheel of human events. L’acqua, teacher culture. The water generator of the most powerful human civilizations. Exciting adventure of the most important natural asset, the dawn of history the illusory purity contained in a plastic bottle.
