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

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Author/Contributor(s): Soll, David
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Date: 07/15/2018
Binding: Paperback
Condition: NEW
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...