Liquid Assets
Subtitle: A History of New York City's Water System
Publisher: Purple Mountain Press Ltd
Published: September 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780916346737
Subjects: Water Supply; Water-supply engineering; Technology; Water Supply And Treatment; History - General History; Water-supply; Science/Mathematics; United States - State & Local - General; Environmental Engineering & Technology; History; New York; New York (State)
First sentence: WHEN a British naval force led by Col. Richard Nicolls sailed into the harbor of the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam in September of 1664, spelling the beginning of the end of Dutch rule in America, it may have been water, rather than weaponry, that played a deciding role in the conflict.