The revisions to be included in the paperback are listed below.  Corrections to errors in the text are highlighted in red.  If you find an error, please post a comment on my blog under the entry for comments and questions.

Revisions for Paperback

Chapter 1

P 8 para 3 delete the phrase “in Edwardian England”

P8 para 4 change the phrase “down Far Water Lane” to “along Far Water Lane”

P19 para 1 change “uselessness” to “lack of effect”

P21 para 4 change “He began to sense” to “At some point he began to sense”

P24 para 1 change “John Snow’s sense of exhiliration grew as he walked past Buckingham Palace and into the heart of ” to “One can only imagine how his young heart soared as John Snow walked past Buckingham Palace and into the center of”

Chapter 2

P26 para  4 replace “Robinson in action, he..” with “him in action, Robinson..”

P27 para 2 replace “he gave little thought to”  with “he had far more on his mind than”
replace “his mind was” with “his thoughts were”

P29 para 4  the closing quotation mark has been lost for the one that precedes the words, ether practice!...  The closing quotation mark follows the word, unfortunate, the last word in the quote.  I am not sure how this is handled stylistically.

P31 para 5 replace “was feeling a bit out of sorts and wanted” with “must have been feeling a bit out of sorts, wanting”

P32 para5Insert the phrase “,but never both” at the end of the first sentence.
Delete the sentence that begins “Although contagious diseases had the potential ….”

P43 para1Change “Firth Street” to “Frith Street”

P44 para 2Change the last sentence to read “Only Snow argued that drinking water played a key role in spreading the disease.”

Chapter 3

P54 para1Change “Firth Street” to “Frith Street”

P59 para3Change the paragraph to read “The nightmare of the recent cholera epidemic was fading into history.  It must have seemed that the collective expertise of this magnificent empire could solve the riddle of its cause and prevent a third epidemic. Any such illusion would soon be shattered.”

Chapter 4

P65 para3 line 6Replace “disaster” with “crisis”

P70 para2 line 2Insert the phrase “served by Lambeth alone” after the word “subdistricts”.

Chapter 5

P78 para 4 Replace “… arrived from the northeast, but something far worse than a heat wave had arrived in the dark of night.”  With “… arrived from the northeast.  The heat wave had faded, but something far worse had emerged in the dark of night.”

P79para4 line 6 Replace “its driver” with “their driver”

P85Insert page break between paragraphs 1 and 2 and between paragraphs 4 and 5

P87 para 4 delete the words “.. Benjamin Hall and ….”

P88 para 2 change the third sentence to read “Middlesex Hospital, five blocks from Broad Street, provided the only available care to the destitute who lived solitary, transient lives clinging to the lowest rungs of society’s ladder.”

P89 para 1 line 6 change  “..the isolated ..”  to “..these isolated …”

P94 para 4 line 2 change “ their fifth birthday” to “the age of five”

Chapter 6

P107para 6 change “twenty years” to “thirty years”

Chapter 7

P 112para 1 line 3 change “searched” to “tested the air”

P 120 para 4delete the sentence that begins, “Like two seasoned gunfighters…”
p128 para 3 line 7 change “ .. has the unique capacity to infect..”  to “..infects only…”

P128 para 3 place parentheses around the last sentence

P135para 2 delete first sentence.  Change second sentence to read “Or, had Pettenkofer tried to hedge his bet?”

Para 3 Delete, “On the other hand, ..”  and move this paragraph up ahead of the current para 2.

Para 4Change “Pettenkofer, or someone seeking to protect him, ..” to “..someone…”

Insert after the first sentence, “Current research suggests that the bacteria might simply have lost its virulence during years in culture.”

Chapter 8

P 150 para 3Change last sentence to read “They could only imagine was happening below the surface.”

P154para 2 replace “was not” with “could not be”

P155 para 2 Change first two sentences to read “The appearance of Oleson, one of the best divers in the business, must have brought new hope to Hoar.”

P156 para 4 Change “..he could feel cold water rush ..” to “cold water rushed”.  Change “He felt for an istant…” to “It must have seemed “

P161 para 1 line 3 replace “country” with “world”

Chapter 9

Page 171 first paragraph.  Change Longfellow Avenue to Longwood Avenue.

Page 174 para 1 delete last sentence, “I could not have been more wrong.”

Page 176 para 3, change third sentence to read, “This requires disinfecting the water, which usually depends on the use of chlorine.”

Page 177 para 2,Delete fourth sentence.

Page 177 Delete last paragraph which begins, “With images ….”

Chapter 10

Page 182 para 4 line 2  Change the phrase “..two rivers add their waters..” to read “..two tributaries add their waters…”

Page 183 text break between last two paragraphs

Chapter 11

Page 196 para 5 Change the first sentence to read “As the mysterious outbreak grew, the laboratory at Milwaukee’s health department began to receive stool samples from hospitals around the city.”

Para 6line 5 Replace “The lab had more sensitive ..” to read “Gradus had ordered more sensitive ……”

Page 205 para 4Delete second sentence and change second to read, “Like bacteria, protozoa are ….”

Page 206 para 3 line 1 Insert the word “of” between “moment” and “inspiration”.

Page 211 para 2 Change last sentence to read “… to have secret levers he could pull to control the political machine, but …”

Chapter 12

Page 217 para 1 line 10 Insert the word “a” before “new administration”

Para 2 line 5Replace both instances of the word “by” with the word “from”

Page 221 para 2 Insert a footnote at the end of the second sentence.  The footnote should read, “At the time of this printing numerous studies including two independent meta-analyses have confirmed the fundamental conclusions of my study.”

Page 224 para 2Change the last sentence to read, “Not only were the holes in this system big enough to drive a truck through, they almost allowed the biggest truck in American history to pass by undetected.”

Para 3 Add sentence at end of paragraph, “A journey along the path of a single city’s water from its source to the tap tells this story best.”

Para 4Delete the first two sentences.

Insert the following sentence at the end of the paragraph. “The disaster has only made the story of that city’s water supply more informative.”

Page 226 para 2 line 4 Insert the words, “chemically altered during treatment or ..”  before the word “trapped”

Page 227 para 4Insert at the end of the paragraph, “But with this massive load of  contaminants, dilution is not enough.”

Page 231 para 3Insert the following sentences at the beginning of this paragraph, “Water treatment seems simple.  Filter, disinfect, drink.  The devil, invisible and relentless lurks in the details.”

Page 232 para 4 Change the second and third sentences to read, “As microbes and other debris accumulate in the top layers of sand, they narrow the pathways between sand particles.  This accumulation of particles and microorganisms is so essential to the effective …”

Change the last sentence of that paragraph to read, “A filter under proper operating conditions will remove ninety-nine out of a hundred oocysts.”

Page 233 para 2 line 4Change “understand” to “understood”

Page 235 para 2 line 2 Change “negotiators” to “stakeholders”

Chapter 13

Page 238 para 4Change last sentence to read, “Sometime during the dark rainy night, for reasons that remain unclear, wells 6 and 7 shut down leaving just five to supply the city.”

Page 243 para 3Insert the following after the end of the first sentence, “The construction work seemed like the source of the problem.  By pumping chlorine into the water entering the system at the wellhead he hoped to eliminate any contamination.  He believed the appearance of chlorine in water just as it reached the town would tell him the situation was under control.”

Insert text break between paragraphs 3 and 4

Page 245 para 4Delete the last sentence, “They would not return to Walkerton alive.”

Page 246 para 2Insert the following sentence at the end of the paragraph, “Complacency, the potential for treatment failure, and emerging pathogens pose a threat to water supplies throughout the developed world.”

Chapter 14

Page 250 para 3Add sentence at end of paragraph, “For the moment they were struggling to survive.”

Page 252 para 3 line 9Delete the word, “sprawled”

Para 4Change the second sentence to begin, “With a square jaw, bald head, pale brown goatee, and strapping frame, …”

Page 253 para 4 line 5Delete the words, “all of”

Page 255 para 5 line 2Replace the word “will”  with the word “would”.

Page 256 para 1Insert a footnote at the end of the paragraph to read, “In August of 2007, the City of New Orleans revealed that its water pipes were leaking at least 50 million gallons every day, far more than before the storm.”

Chapter 15

Page 258 para 4 line 1Insert a comma after the word “landed”.

Page 264 line 1Change the number, “1.8” to “2.2”

Page 267 para 2 line 3Change the words, “Twenty-five years ago…” to “In 1975 “

Chapter 16

Page 279 para 2 last lineReplace the words “alternative methods” with the words “available options”.

Page 280 para 2Replace the  third sentence with, “The EPA regulates fewer than one hundred out of the tens of thousands of chemicals that can appear in our water supplies, selecting candidates based on their toxicity and prevalence.”

Page 284 para 1 line 6Replace $100 billion, with “$184 billion”

Page 285Please move the section on Terrorism which begins on 288 and ends at the text break on 291 to precede the section on the consumer.

Page 286 last lineChange “there are far more, particularly at smaller utilities, who resist change.” to “.. overall it resists change.”

Page 292 para 3 line 2 Delete the word, “before”.