Liquid Assets
Subtitle: A History of New York City's Water System
Publisher: Harbor Hill Books
Published: September 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780916346744
Subjects: Water-supply; New York; Technology; History: World; Water-supply engineering; History; Engineering - Environmental; 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.