Lucy Sante – Nineteen Reservoirs (epub)
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Name: Lucy Sante – Nineteen Reservoirs (epub)
Format: epub
Size: 8.57 MB
Book:
Title: Nineteen Reservoirs
Author: Lucy Sante
Language: English
Year: 2022
Subjects: History, Science, Nonfiction
Publisher: The Experiment
ISBN: 8958389494
Total pages: 160 str.
Description:
Without the nineteen upstate reservoirs that supply its water, New York City as we know it would not exist today.
From 1907 to 1967, a network of reservoirs and aqueducts was built across more than one million acres in upstate New York, including Greene, Delaware, Sullivan, and Ulster Counties. This feat of engineering served to meet New York City’s ever-increasing need for water, sustaining its inhabitants and cementing it as a center of industry. West of the Hudson, it meant that twenty-six villages, with their farms, forest lands, orchards, and quarries, were bought for a fraction of their value, demolished, and submerged, profoundly altering ecosystems in ways we will never fully appreciate.
This paradox of victory and loss is at the heart of Nineteen Reservoirs, Lucy Sante’s meticulous account of how New York City secured its seemingly limitless fresh water supply, and why it cannot be taken for granted. In inimitable form, Sante…
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