| Book Review | Environmental History, 10.2

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Book Review

Political Waters: The Long, Dirty, Contentious, Incredibly Expensive but Eventually Triumphant History of Boston Harbor: A Unique Environmental Success Story. By Eric Jay Dolin. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004. xi + 240 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $34.95.
Eric Jay Dolin offers a lively accounting of one of the nation's largest, most expensive, technically complex, and politically controversial public works projects. No, not The Big Dig, The Other One—the multi-billion dollar project to redo the Boston region's sewage treatment system and thereby clean up its filthy harbor.	1
The core of the book examines a two-decade legal and political battle to force often-recalcitrant policymakers to tackle a perpetually underfunded and ignored sewage treatment system, a struggle made infamous by George H. W. Bush's election-year sally into Boston Harbor to attack his opponent, Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis. To get to that story, Dolin traces the history of Boston's sewage system to its origins in neighborhood privies and wooden pipes, and shows how contemporary policy problems are in many respects new wine in old bottles. Nobody cares about sewage so long as it is out of sight—or smell.	. . .

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