Water for Gotham : a history / Gerard T. Koeppel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koeppel, Gerard T., 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Water-supply--New York (State)--New York--History.

Water-supply.

Water-supply engineering--New York (State)--New York--History.

Water-supply engineering.

Croton Aqueduct (N.Y.)--History.

Croton Aqueduct (N.Y.).

Water Supply--history.

Sanitary Engineering--history.

New York (State)--Croton Aqueduct.

New York (State)--New York.

Medical Subjects:

Water Supply--history.

Sanitary Engineering--history.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 355 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2000.

Summary:

This text examines New York City's struggle for that vital and basic element - clean water. Drawing on primary sources, personal narratives, and anecdotes, it shows how the project developed up to 1842 when the Croton Aqueduct was secured.

Contents:

"Give us cold water"

Manahata goes Dutch

English well-being

Tea water and the works that weren't

New city, old trouble

Aaron's water

Fools of Gotham

Catching the Croton bug

The work begins

Taking the high road?

Filling the "Big teapot"

New York's water from then to now.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0691011397

9780691011394

0691089760

9780691089768

OCLC:

42882832

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