Title: Water : a turbulent history /
Authors: Halliday, Stephen.
Publisher: Sutton,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Water-supply Great Britain History.
Abstract: "Water is essential to human life and an important component of human history. Yet it is surprising how little attention it receives in historical accounts. Stephen Halliday's new book explores the beneficial and harmful effects of H[subscript 2]O throughout British history, looking at how scientists, inventors, engineers and politicians have attempted to harness the good and confront the bad."--Jacket.
Contents: Prologue: 'Water, water, everywhere' -- Water for drinking: Sir Hugh Myddleton, the New River and clean water -- Too much water: Sir Cornelius Vermuyden and the draining of the fens -- The inland waterways and the industrial revolution -- Water as power: waterwheels, steam and electricity -- Water as deadly danger -- Water, landscape and literature: Wordsworth and the Lake School -- 'Taking the waters': water, health and recreation -- Epilogue : Water in the twenty-first century.