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Nineteen Reservoirs: On Their Creation and the Promise of Water for New York City
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Without the nineteen upstate reservoirs that supply its water, New York City as we know it would not exist today.
“[Sante] is an endlessly curious writer with a sharp wit and an elegant prose style . . . As a physical object, the book is a stunner, loaded with maps, archival stills of the construction process, vintage postcards, and ads warning New Yorkers to check their plumbing and ‘stop that leak!’”—The Wall Street Journal