| Book Review | Environmental History, 8.1

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Hard Water: Politics and Water Supply in Milwaukee, 1870–1995. By Kate Foss-Mollan. West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 2001. xi + 218 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $36.95.

In Hard Water, Kate Foss-Mollan surveys the state and local political considerations that guided the development of Milwaukee's water system. She divides her study into four eras: the creation of the water supply from 1867–1910; the development of sewerage and filtration plants under the Socialist administrations that ran the city from 1910–1960; the extension of the water supply to the suburbs in the two decades after World War II; and the struggle to provide potable water in the post-1975 era. From her examination of the state and local commission reports and court proceedings, Foss-Mollan stresses that a proprietary attitude, the belief that the water system should generate revenue to help finance other city services, defined the city's water policies. This outlook led the Water Commissioners to favor profitable service extensions in the suburbs over the more costly extension of services to the lower income Polish residents on the city's south side and to delay construction of a filtration plant until the federal government provided funds. . . .

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