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Empire of Water: An Environmental and Political History of the New York City Water Supply

Empire of Water: An Environmental and Political History of the New York City Water Supply

Soll, David

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Technology & EngineeringEnvironmental StudiesRegional: Middle Atlantic

ISBN10: 1501725114
ISBN13: 9781501725111
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: Jul 15 2018
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Supplying water to millions is not simply an engineering and logistical challenge. As David Soll shows in his finely observed history of the nation's largest municipal water system, the task of providing water to New Yorkers transformed the natural and built environment of the city, its suburbs, and distant rural watersheds. Almost as soon as New York City completed its first municipal water system in 1842, it began to expand the network, eventually reaching far into the Catskill Mountains, more than one hundred miles from the city. Empire of Water explores the history of New York City's water system from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century, focusing on the geographical, environmental, and political repercussions of the city's search for more water.

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