Empire of Water : An Environmental and Political History of the New York City Water Supply /
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...
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press,
[2013]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction. The Evolution of a Water System
- Chapter One. From Croton to Catskill
- Chapter Two. Up Country
- Chapter Three. Drought, Delays, and the Delaware
- Chapter Four. Back to the Supreme Court
- Chapter Five. The Water System and the Urban Crisis
- Chapter Six. The Rise of Watershed Management
- Chapter Seven. Implementing the Watershed Agreement
- Epilogue. Putting Politics in Its Place
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index