Philobiblon

Over on Blogcritics I’ve a review of Blue Death – Disease, Disaster and the Water We Drink by Dr. Robert D. Morris. It is a slightly odd mix of history (covering some fairly well-trodden ground in a cheerfully anecdotal manner) and polemic, but it has some very worthwhile, and worrying, things to say about why you should be concerned about what’s coming out of the tap. (But happily points out that what somes out of a bottle is just as bad, if not worse.