Atlanta's Water Wars: Technology, Politics, and Environmentalism, 1945-2005

Perched on the Eastern Continental Divide, Atlanta has always been a difficult place to manage water—and to keep its waste out of sight. Atlanta’s Water Wars follows the development of the city’s water and sewer system from the postwar push for Buford Dam and metropolitan expansion to the Clean Water Act, civil rights battles inside City Hall, neighborhood environmental justice campaigns, and lawsuits. Starting from the tragic 1993 Orme Street sewer collapse, Eric M. Hardy uses that catastr...