Water for Gotham
Subtitle: A History.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: March 13, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780691011394
Subjects: United States - State & Local - General; Water Supply; Sociology - Urban; Urban Planning; Water Resources Engineering; Water-supply engineering; History - General History; History: American; United States - 19th Century; American History; Applied Science and Engineering; History / United States / 19th Century; History of Science and Medicine, Philosophy of Science; Water-supply; Croton Aqueduct (N.Y.); History; New York; New York (State)
First sentence: Mary Fitzgerald was "a neat housekeeper," said the doctors, her family "decent and cleanly people, and their habits temperate."