... amounts of water in the atmosphere that can produce record-breaking floods. Lack of rain in some areas (e.g., US Southwest) causes droughts which are becoming larger and longer lived, damaging agriculture and drinking water supplies. Currently, river water supplies for drinking and farming are dwindling...

... A century of gold and uranium mining hollowed out South Africa's Witwatersrand plateau. After the closure of these mines, water rose through the shafts, spilling acid mine drainage loaded with uranium, arsenic, and other harmful metals onto agricultural fields and into drinking water...

... Helene tells story of leaving first husband, David. Hettie mentions Helene’s drinking and smoking as detriment to health, says she’s worried and loves her. Helene is ill but doesn’t reveal with what. Hettie complains: twenty-nine homeworks each week, Helene used to correct freshman English...

... the rain, Olivera points out, was considered a resource to be commodified by Law 2029, the neoliberal legislation on drinking water and sanitation. According to Olivera, powerful corporate interests, especially foreign ones, sought to appropriate public goods for private profit, and the Bolivian government...

... voice to an ordinary working woman who has migrated from the city of Montero, in the region of Santa Cruz, to New York City, where she works as a waitress. Río-Mar (River-Sea) was a Spanish bar-restaurant in the meatpacking district of Manhattan. It was a down-to-earth drinking spot with good...

... and chew coca leaf together, smoke, and share a drink. Miners are also the “devils” who come out at Carnival to dance in the streets by the thousands, above all in the mining city of Oruro. The tío is an adaptation to mining culture of old Andean agricultural beliefs about the fertile forces...

... to an ordinary working woman who has migrated from the city of Montero, in the region of Santa Cruz, to New York City, where she works as a waitress. Río-Mar (River-Sea) was a Spanish bar-restaurant in the meatpacking district of Manhattan. It was a down-to-earth drinking spot with good and abundant food...

... places in the mineshafts. The tío is always found sitting wrapped in streamers and confetti, with horns on his head and a big, erect penis. Miners sit with him during rest periods and chew coca leaf together, smoke, and share a drink. Miners are also the “devils” who come out at Carnival to dance...

... movements and civil society in Cochabamba. Even the rain, Olivera points out, was considered a resource to be commodified by Law 2029, the neoliberal legislation on drinking water and sanitation. According to Olivera, powerful corporate interests, especially foreign ones, sought to appropriate public goods...

... and Illustrated History of American Eating and Drinking (New York: American Heritage; Simon and Schuster, 1964), 602; a recipe for ’Lecshun or Election cake may be found in Imogene Wolcott, ed., The Yankee Cook Book (New York: Coward-McCann, 1939), 252–53. The three branches of military service that “T. J.’s...