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Precious Commodity : Providing Water for America's Cities /

As an essential resource, water has been the object of warfare, political wrangling, and individual and corporate abuse. It has also become an object of commodification, with multinational corporations vying for water supply contracts in many countries. In Precious Commodity, Martin V. Melosi examin...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Melosi, Martin V., 1947- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2011.
Colección:History of the urban environment.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Water-Truly a Precious Commodity; Chapter One: "Improving" Rivers in America: From the Revolution to the Progressive Era; Chapter Two: How Bad Theory Can Lead to Good Technology: Water Supply and Sewerage in the Age of Miasmas; Chapter Three: Pure and Plentiful: The Development of Modern Waterworks in the United States, 1880-2000; Chapter Four: The Environmental Impact of the Big Dam Era; Chapter Five: Private Water: The Curious Case of San Jose's Water Supply; Chapter Six: The Historical Significance of Houston's Buffalo Bayou. 
505 8 |a Chapter Seven: Houston's Public Sinks: Water and Wastewater Services-Local Concerns to Regional ChallengesChapter Eight: Privatization of Water: U.S. and Worldwide Implications; Conclusion: The Question of Control; Further Reading; Notes; Index. 
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