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Is it not generally believed that our town is a healthy place ...a place highly com- mended on this score both for the sick andfor the healthy? . . And then these Baths - the so-called 'artery' of the town, or the 'nerve centre' ...Do you know what they are in reality, these great and splendid and glorious Baths that have cost so much money? . . A most serious danger to health! All that filth up in Melledal, where there's such an awful stench - it's all seeping into the pipes that lead to the pump-room! Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People, 1882 Henrik Ibsen gave the 'truth about mineral water' more than 100 years ago in An Enemy of the People. His examples came not from the decadent bathing spas of Bohemia or Victorian Britain, but from the very edge of polite society, subarctic Norway! His masterpiece illustrates the central role that groundwaters and, in particular, mineral waters have played in the history of humanity: their economic importance for towns, their magnetism for pilgrims searching for cures, the political intrigues, the arguments over purported beneficent or maleficent health effects and, finally, their contami- nation by anthropogenic activity, in Ibsen's case by wastes from a tannery. This book addresses the occurrence, properties and uses of mineral and thermal groundwaters. The use of these resources for heating, personal hygiene, curative and recreational purposes is deeply integrated in the history of civilization.

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Author:   M. Albu ,  D. Banks ,  H. Nash
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.706kg
ISBN:  

9789401064705

ISBN 10:   9401064709
Pages:   447
Publication Date:   06 November 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

One Mineral and Thermal Groundwater Resources.- 1 History of mineral and thermal waters.- 2 Uses of mineral and thermal waters.- 3 Hydrogeochemistry and origin of mineral waters.- 4 Thermal water systems.- 5 Investigation of mineral and thermal water systems.- 6 Modelling of groundwater systems.- 7 Exploitation and management of mineral and thermal waters.- 8 Environmental issues and conservation.- Two Case Studies.- 9 Geothermal energy in Iceland.- 10 The spas of England.- 11 Geothermal and mineral water resources of Lithuania.- 12 Natural mineral waters of Mineralnye Vody region of north Caucasus, CIS.- 13 Geological, hydrochemical, regulatory and economic aspects of natural packaged water production: Nordland County, Norway.- 14 The mineral and thermal waters of the Krušné Hory rift valley, Czech Republic.- 15 The spa of Buzia?, Romania.- 16 Optimization of exploitation of geothermal reservoirs in the Pannonian Basin, Romania.- References.

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