Journalist Gerald Koeppel took New York City’s water supply for granted until
he happened by the Seagram Building’s fountains on a stifling July day.
Suddenly, he recalls, he wanted to know where that wonderful water came from.
Water for Gotham is the fascinating story of a great city’s struggle to
drain nature dry. Read it and wonder. Published by Princeton University Press,
$29.95, ISBN 06910011397.
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