7 “Drains to Bay” 第七章 流入海湾的下水道 On the curb across the street from my office there is a sign with apicture of a little blue fish ringed by the words, “No Dumping—Drains to Bay.” Underneath the sign sits the storm sewer—an entry point for rainwater traveling ...
6 The Chlorine Dilemma 第六章 氯 化 处 理水的困境 After the publication of Silent Spring and the much-publicized fire on the Cuyahoga River, all eyesturned to Washington, D.C., where concerned politicians pushed forward pollution-control legislation. Increased publi ...
5 Burning Rivers, Fading Paint, and the Clean Water Movement 第五章 燃 烧 的河流、褪色的油漆和清 洁 水运 动 In the 1960s, Edwin Chadwick, Victor Hugo, Karl Marx, and their fellow reformers campaigned vigorously for centralized systems to helpfarmers capture the nutrient ...
4 Growing Old Thanks to Water Treatment 第四章 延年益寿得力于水 处 理 During the nineteenth century, the United States matured from asleepy, isolated country to a leading industrialized nation. New York grew froma city of fewer than 70,000,000 to a metropolis of o ...
3 Europe’s Sewage Crisis 第三章 欧洲的 污 水危机 As Western civilization made the transition from medieval to the modern era, the systems that had been developed to provide water and remove wastes struggled to keep up with increasing population densiti ...
2 The Bucket Era 第二章 桶的 时 代 The Western world was very different after the fall of the Roman Empire. Without Rome’s engineers, planners, and armies, cities faded into the background. Between 500 and 1400 CE, few places in Europ had populations that ...
1 Water Supply in Rome, the World’s First Metropolis 第一章 世界上第一个大都市 罗马 城的供水 If water is the essential ingredient of life, then water supply is the essential ingredient of civilization. In ancient times, when people first began gathering in settlements ...
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