Empire of Water : : An Environmental and Political History of the New York City Water Supply / / David Soll.
Supplying water to millions is not simply an engineering and logistical challenge. 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...
Saved in:
Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
---|---|
VerfasserIn: | |
Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
Online Access: | |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (300 p.) :; 15 halftones |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
id |
9780801468070 |
---|---|
ctrlnum |
(DE-B1597)481687 (OCoLC)837578514 |
collection |
bib_alma |
record_format |
marc |
spelling |
Soll, David, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Empire of Water : An Environmental and Political History of the New York City Water Supply / David Soll. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2013] ©2013 1 online resource (300 p.) : 15 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction. The Evolution of a Water System -- Chapter One. From Croton to Catskill -- Chapter Two. Up Country -- Chapter Three. Drought, Delays, and the Delaware -- Chapter Four. Back to the Supreme Court -- Chapter Five. The Water System and the Urban Crisis -- Chapter Six. The Rise of Watershed Management -- Chapter Seven. Implementing the Watershed Agreement -- Epilogue. Putting Politics in Its Place -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Supplying water to millions is not simply an engineering and logistical challenge. 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 the city’s search for more water. Soll vividly recounts the profound environmental implications for both city and countryside. Some of the region’s most prominent landmarks, such as the High Bridge across the Harlem River, Central Park’s Great Lawn, and the Ashokan Reservoir in Ulster County, have their origins in the city’s water system. By tracing the evolution of the city’s water conservation efforts and watershed management regime, Soll reveals the tremendous shifts in environmental practices and consciousness that occurred during the twentieth century. Few episodes better capture the long-standing upstate-downstate divide in New York than the story of how mountain water came to flow from spigots in Brooklyn and Manhattan.Soll concludes by focusing on the landmark watershed protection agreement signed in 1997 between the city, watershed residents, environmental organizations, and the state and federal governments. After decades of rancor between the city and Catskill residents, the two sides set aside their differences to forge a new model of environmental stewardship. His account of this unlikely environmental success story offers a behind the scenes perspective on the nation’s most ambitious and wide-ranging watershed protection program. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024) Water-supply engineering History New York (State) New York New York (State) New York. Water-supply engineering New York (State) New York History. Water-supply Environmental aspects History New York (State) New York. Water-supply Environmental aspects New York (State) New York History. Water-supply Political aspects History New York (State) New York. Water-supply Political aspects New York (State) New York History. Watershed management History New York (State) New York. Watershed management New York (State) New York History. Environmental History. U.S. History. Urban Studies. HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA). bisacsh water management, water system, water conservation, water sanitation, city water networks, water and sustainability, watershed protection, environmental stewardship. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 9783110606553 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2000-2015 9783110638721 https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801468070 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801468070 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780801468070/original |
language |
English |
format |
eBook |
author |
Soll, David, Soll, David, |
spellingShingle |
Soll, David, Soll, David, Empire of Water : An Environmental and Political History of the New York City Water Supply / Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction. The Evolution of a Water System -- Chapter One. From Croton to Catskill -- Chapter Two. Up Country -- Chapter Three. Drought, Delays, and the Delaware -- Chapter Four. Back to the Supreme Court -- Chapter Five. The Water System and the Urban Crisis -- Chapter Six. The Rise of Watershed Management -- Chapter Seven. Implementing the Watershed Agreement -- Epilogue. Putting Politics in Its Place -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
author_facet |
Soll, David, Soll, David, |
author_variant |
d s ds d s ds |
author_role |
VerfasserIn VerfasserIn |
author_sort |
Soll, David, |
title |
Empire of Water : An Environmental and Political History of the New York City Water Supply / |
title_sub |
An Environmental and Political History of the New York City Water Supply / |
title_full |
Empire of Water : An Environmental and Political History of the New York City Water Supply / David Soll. |
title_fullStr |
Empire of Water : An Environmental and Political History of the New York City Water Supply / David Soll. |
title_full_unstemmed |
Empire of Water : An Environmental and Political History of the New York City Water Supply / David Soll. |
title_auth |
Empire of Water : An Environmental and Political History of the New York City Water Supply / |
title_alt |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction. The Evolution of a Water System -- Chapter One. From Croton to Catskill -- Chapter Two. Up Country -- Chapter Three. Drought, Delays, and the Delaware -- Chapter Four. Back to the Supreme Court -- Chapter Five. The Water System and the Urban Crisis -- Chapter Six. The Rise of Watershed Management -- Chapter Seven. Implementing the Watershed Agreement -- Epilogue. Putting Politics in Its Place -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
title_new |
Empire of Water : |
title_sort |
empire of water : an environmental and political history of the new york city water supply / |
publisher |
Cornell University Press, |
publishDate |
2013 |
physical |
1 online resource (300 p.) : 15 halftones |
contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction. The Evolution of a Water System -- Chapter One. From Croton to Catskill -- Chapter Two. Up Country -- Chapter Three. Drought, Delays, and the Delaware -- Chapter Four. Back to the Supreme Court -- Chapter Five. The Water System and the Urban Crisis -- Chapter Six. The Rise of Watershed Management -- Chapter Seven. Implementing the Watershed Agreement -- Epilogue. Putting Politics in Its Place -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
isbn |
9780801468070 9783110536157 9783110606553 9783110638721 |
callnumber-first |
T - Technology |
callnumber-subject |
TD - Environmental Technology |
callnumber-label |
TD225 |
callnumber-sort |
TD 3225 N5 S65 42013 |
geographic_facet |
New York (State) New York |
url |
https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801468070 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801468070 https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780801468070/original |
illustrated |
Not Illustrated |
dewey-hundreds |
300 - Social sciences |
dewey-tens |
360 - Social problems & social services |
dewey-ones |
363 - Other social problems & services |
dewey-full |
363.6/1097471 |
dewey-sort |
3363.6 71097471 |
dewey-raw |
363.6/1097471 |
dewey-search |
363.6/1097471 |
doi_str_mv |
10.7591/9780801468070 |
oclc_num |
837578514 |
work_keys_str_mv |
AT solldavid empireofwateranenvironmentalandpoliticalhistoryofthenewyorkcitywatersupply |
status_str |
n |
ids_txt_mv |
(DE-B1597)481687 (OCoLC)837578514 |
carrierType_str_mv |
cr |
hierarchy_parent_title |
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2000-2015 |
is_hierarchy_title |
Empire of Water : An Environmental and Political History of the New York City Water Supply / |
container_title |
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
_version_ |
1806143343491547136 |
fullrecord |
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><collection xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim"><record><leader>06199nam a2200793Ia 4500</leader><controlfield tag="001">9780801468070</controlfield><controlfield tag="003">DE-B1597</controlfield><controlfield tag="005">20240426104009.0</controlfield><controlfield tag="006">m|||||o||d||||||||</controlfield><controlfield tag="007">cr || ||||||||</controlfield><controlfield tag="008">240426t20132013nyu fo d z eng d</controlfield><datafield tag="019" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)987944997</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">9780801468070</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="024" ind1="7" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">10.7591/9780801468070</subfield><subfield code="2">doi</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(DE-B1597)481687</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)837578514</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="040" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-B1597</subfield><subfield code="b">eng</subfield><subfield code="c">DE-B1597</subfield><subfield code="e">rda</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="041" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">eng</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="044" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">nyu</subfield><subfield code="c">US-NY</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="050" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">TD225.N5</subfield><subfield code="b">S65 2013</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="072" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">HIS036080</subfield><subfield code="2">bisacsh</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="082" ind1="0" ind2="4"><subfield code="a">363.6/1097471</subfield><subfield code="2">23</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="100" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Soll, David, </subfield><subfield code="e">author.</subfield><subfield code="4">aut</subfield><subfield code="4">http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="245" ind1="1" ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Empire of Water :</subfield><subfield code="b">An Environmental and Political History of the New York City Water Supply /</subfield><subfield code="c">David Soll.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="1"><subfield code="a">Ithaca, NY : </subfield><subfield code="b">Cornell University Press, </subfield><subfield code="c">[2013]</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="c">©2013</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="300" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">1 online resource (300 p.) :</subfield><subfield code="b">15 halftones</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="336" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">text</subfield><subfield code="b">txt</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacontent</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="337" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">computer</subfield><subfield code="b">c</subfield><subfield code="2">rdamedia</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="338" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">online resource</subfield><subfield code="b">cr</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacarrier</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="347" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">text file</subfield><subfield code="b">PDF</subfield><subfield code="2">rda</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="505" ind1="0" ind2="0"><subfield code="t">Frontmatter -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Contents -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Preface -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Introduction. The Evolution of a Water System -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Chapter One. From Croton to Catskill -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Chapter Two. Up Country -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Chapter Three. Drought, Delays, and the Delaware -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Chapter Four. Back to the Supreme Court -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Chapter Five. The Water System and the Urban Crisis -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Chapter Six. The Rise of Watershed Management -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Chapter Seven. Implementing the Watershed Agreement -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Epilogue. Putting Politics in Its Place -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Notes -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Bibliography -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Index</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="506" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">restricted access</subfield><subfield code="u">http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec</subfield><subfield code="f">online access with authorization</subfield><subfield code="2">star</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="520" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Supplying water to millions is not simply an engineering and logistical challenge. 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 the city’s search for more water. Soll vividly recounts the profound environmental implications for both city and countryside. Some of the region’s most prominent landmarks, such as the High Bridge across the Harlem River, Central Park’s Great Lawn, and the Ashokan Reservoir in Ulster County, have their origins in the city’s water system. By tracing the evolution of the city’s water conservation efforts and watershed management regime, Soll reveals the tremendous shifts in environmental practices and consciousness that occurred during the twentieth century. Few episodes better capture the long-standing upstate-downstate divide in New York than the story of how mountain water came to flow from spigots in Brooklyn and Manhattan.Soll concludes by focusing on the landmark watershed protection agreement signed in 1997 between the city, watershed residents, environmental organizations, and the state and federal governments. After decades of rancor between the city and Catskill residents, the two sides set aside their differences to forge a new model of environmental stewardship. His account of this unlikely environmental success story offers a behind the scenes perspective on the nation’s most ambitious and wide-ranging watershed protection program.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="538" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="546" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">In English.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="588" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Water-supply engineering</subfield><subfield code="x">History</subfield><subfield code="x">New York (State)</subfield><subfield code="x">New York</subfield><subfield code="x">New York (State)</subfield><subfield code="x">New York.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Water-supply engineering</subfield><subfield code="z">New York (State)</subfield><subfield code="z">New York</subfield><subfield code="x">History.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Water-supply</subfield><subfield code="x">Environmental aspects</subfield><subfield code="x">History</subfield><subfield code="x">New York (State)</subfield><subfield code="x">New York.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Water-supply</subfield><subfield code="x">Environmental aspects</subfield><subfield code="z">New York (State)</subfield><subfield code="z">New York</subfield><subfield code="x">History.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Water-supply</subfield><subfield code="x">Political aspects</subfield><subfield code="x">History</subfield><subfield code="x">New York (State)</subfield><subfield code="x">New York.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Water-supply</subfield><subfield code="x">Political aspects</subfield><subfield code="z">New York (State)</subfield><subfield code="z">New York</subfield><subfield code="x">History.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Watershed management</subfield><subfield code="x">History</subfield><subfield code="x">New York (State)</subfield><subfield code="x">New York.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Watershed management</subfield><subfield code="z">New York (State)</subfield><subfield code="z">New York</subfield><subfield code="x">History.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">Environmental History.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">U.S. History.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">Urban Studies.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA).</subfield><subfield code="2">bisacsh</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">water management, water system, water conservation, water sanitation, city water networks, water and sustainability, watershed protection, environmental stewardship.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="773" ind1="0" ind2="8"><subfield code="i">Title is part of eBook package:</subfield><subfield code="d">De Gruyter</subfield><subfield code="t">Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013</subfield><subfield code="z">9783110536157</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="773" ind1="0" ind2="8"><subfield code="i">Title is part of eBook package:</subfield><subfield code="d">De Gruyter</subfield><subfield code="t">Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018</subfield><subfield code="z">9783110606553</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="773" ind1="0" ind2="8"><subfield code="i">Title is part of eBook package:</subfield><subfield code="d">De Gruyter</subfield><subfield code="t">DG and UP eBook Package 2000-2015</subfield><subfield code="z">9783110638721</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="0"><subfield code="u">https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801468070</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="0"><subfield code="u">https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801468070</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="2"><subfield code="3">Cover</subfield><subfield code="u">https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780801468070/original</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">978-3-11-053615-7 Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013</subfield><subfield code="c">2000</subfield><subfield code="d">2013</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">978-3-11-060655-3 Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018</subfield><subfield code="b">2018</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">978-3-11-063872-1 DG and UP eBook Package 2000-2015</subfield><subfield code="c">2000</subfield><subfield code="d">2015</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_BACKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_CL_HICS</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_EBACKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_EBKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_ECL_HICS</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_EEBKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_ESSHALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_PPALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_SSHALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">GBV-deGruyter-alles</subfield></datafield></record></collection> |