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Atlanta's Water Wars: Technology, Politics, and Environmentalism, 1945-2005

Atlanta's Water Wars: Technology, Politics, and Environmentalism, 1945-2005

Hardy, Eric M.

Paperback

Series: History of the Urban Environment

Technology & EngineeringRegional: SouthUnited States Politics

PREORDER - Expected ship date August 3, 2027

ISBN10: 0822968207
ISBN13: 9780822968207
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: Aug 3 2027
Pages: 192
Language: English
Perched on the Eastern Continental Divide, Atlanta has always been a difficult place to manage water--and to keep its waste out of sight. Atlanta's Water Wars follows the development of the city's water and sewer system from the postwar push for Buford Dam and metropolitan expansion to the Clean Water Act, civil rights battles inside City Hall, neighborhood environmental justice campaigns, and lawsuits. Starting from the tragic 1993 Orme Street sewer collapse, Eric M. Hardy uses that catastrophe to uncover decades of deferred maintenance, racial inequality, and fragmented governance beneath a booming Sunbelt metropolis. Tracing the rise and fall of a privatized water contract, the negotiation of federal consent decrees, and the multibillion-dollar Clean Water Atlanta rebuild, Hardy shows how engineers, mayors, regulators, and activists learned--often painfully--to share power over an essential but invisible infrastructure. Atlanta's water story, Hardy argues, is a vivid case of adaptive governance in the face of an urban dilemma.

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