Reading a great book on NYC's Water Supply history

Mad Dog_2

Mad Dog_2

As a serious student of history, books like these advance my knowledge base in my particular Fields of Interest in great leaps.  This book is Red Meat 🍖 if you have an interest in how the greatest city in the world got, took, cajoled,  "acquired " the water 💧 supply we enjoy today.  I highly recommend NINETEEN RESERVOIRS.  Mad Dog 🐕 

bburd

Yes, that is an excellent book. It's unusual in that it concentrates more on the effects on the people living near the water sources than on the engineering of the system itself. That's a perspective we don't often see.

Mad Dog_2

Yes..The Fambly has a Catskill Deer Camp a few miles from the Pepacton.  I have a row boat 🚣‍♀️ on it too.  The resentment is VERY deep with a good chunk of the locals against "The Flatlanders...The City Slickers." I get a kick out of them and I can't blame them either, but.....Robert Moses is similarly detested in some quarters.  I've read enough on the Engineering and building of The Ressies...This was a more Sociological study...

Have you read "Hidden Waters." ?  MAD DOG 🐕 

hot_rod

Have you read Liquid Assets?