By Diane Galusha. Explores the technical, political and social history of this great system, from the days when springs and wells supplied the 17th-century Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam, to the carving of huge storage reservoirs and subterranean aqueducts as much as 120 miles from the metropolis of millions. Nor does the book leave out the most recent accomplishments: The building of mammoth City Water Tunnel #3 currently under construction; and the implementation of the 1997 New York City Watershed Memorandum of Agreement, the landmark pact designed to protect the city's water while preserving upstate communities in its watershed both cast and west of the Hudson River. You may recall the years of discord and debate preceding this agreement between the city, upstate inerests. 8.5 x 11 303 pages 182 illustrations Paper