| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 106.5

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Canada and the United States

Gerard T. Koeppel. Water for Gotham: A History. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2000. Pp. xiv, 355. $29.95.

Gerard T. Koeppel's book chronicles the history of water supply in New York City from the earliest Dutch settlements through the mid-nineteenth century. By far, the bulk of the story focuses upon the period between the 1770s and the 1830s, during which time New York City desperately needed a safe and adequate supply of water. Repeated epidemics and devastating fires underscored the critical situation that existed. Nevertheless, New York City's government failed to provide an ample supply of water, and the efforts of the private sector proved similarly ineffective. In 1832, the tide began to turn when the state interceded and managed the construction of the Croton Aqueduct. Nevertheless, New York's continued growth in the succeeding years demanded that the search for new water supplies be continued. Koeppel sums up the succeeding one hundred and fifty years of New York's water supply history in a concluding chapter. . . .

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