Empire of Water

Author: David Soll
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0801449901

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. Download Empire of Water: An Environmental and Political History of the New York City Water Supply from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. 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 Search and find a lot of engineering books in many category availabe for free download.

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