The fresh, clean taste of New York's water is legendary. Less well known is the story of the program of exploration and construction to achieve such purity. The story is told in Water-Works and illustrated with an archive of drawings and photographs documenting the design and construction of dams, reservoirs, aqueducts, and tunnels.
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The fresh, clean taste of New York's water is legendary. Less well known is the story of the program of exploration and construction to achieve such purity. The story is told in Water-Works and illustrated with an archive of drawings and photographs documenting the design and construction of dams, reservoirs, aqueducts, and tunnels.
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Seller's Description:
Fine in very good(+) jacket. Essays by Albert F. Appleton, Kevin Bone, Peter H. Gleick, and Gerard Koeppel. Filled with black-and-white photographs, architectural drawings, and topographical maps. 268 pages, 4to, black cloth, d.w. (laminate rather crinkled on rear panel). New York: Monacelli Press, (2006). A fine copy in very good(+) dust wrapper.
