Nineteen Reservoirs: On Their Creation and the Promise of Water for New York City History_Gift_Guide The Best Books of 2023

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Nineteen Reservoirs: On Their Creation and the Promise of Water for New York City History_Gift_Guide The Best Books of 2023Now in paperback: acclaimed author Lucy Santes eye opening tale of the greed and corruption but also diplomacy and ingenuity (The Washington Post) involved in the creation of the upstate reservoir system that makes New York Citys existence possiblebut irreparably altered rural ecosystems and communities From 1907 to 1967, a network of reservoirs and aqueducts was built across more than one million acres in upstate New York, including Greene, Delaware,