Turn on the faucet; and water pours out. Pull out the drain plug; and the dirty water disappears. Most of us give little thought to the hidden systems that bring us water and take it away when wersquo;re done with it. But these underappreciated marvels of engineering face an array of challenges that cannot be solved without a fundamental change to our relationship with water; David Sedlak explains in this enlightening book. To make informed decisions about the future; we need to understand the three revolutions in urban water systems that have occurred over the past 2;500 years and the technologies that will remake the system.
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Review
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A thoroughly researched and informative bookBy D. RamseyProf. Kuhns is evidently a brilliant scholar; and he has done an especially fine job of describing the actual practices of the directors and actors of the early 20th-century theatrical movement called Expressionism. And I admired his final observations on what the movement bequeathed to Brecht -- so much so that I hope he will go forward and give us the as-yet unwritten; in-depth study of Brechts actual stage practice. There are times when this author succumbs to fashionable scholarly jargon and others when he neglects to sketch adequately the social and historical moment. But I found plenty to absorb in this meaty study.
