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Story of Eau

Steven Shapin, 4 July 2024

The Taste of Water: Sensory Perception and the Making of an Industrialised Beverage 
by Christy Spackman.
California, 289 pp., £25, December 2023, 978 0 520 39355 4
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... in England, Germany and the US to chlorinate water to make it ‘germ-free’.This is where Christy Spackman takes up the story. An American sensory scientist now working in parched Arizona as an academic commentator on water policy, Spackman thinks we shouldn’t take the modern water supply for granted. She ...

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