Water issues
“The sweetest water you ever tasted!”: Snake oil salesmen, ‘bottled water’ scams, and future water wars
In the 19th Century American wild west, Chinese snake oil became known as a powerful cure for certain ailments (1). This led to unscrupulous rascals bottling boiled down pig fats (etc) and flogging it from transport rigs as they passed through town. The 21st Century equivalent is taking any old…