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The Delaware Aqueduct, completed in 1945, taps tributaries of the Delaware River in the western Catskill Mountains and provides approximately half of New York City's water supply. [16] The latter two aqueducts provide 90% of New York City's drinking water, and the watershed for these aqueducts extends a combined 1 million acres (400,000 ha).
The History of public health in New York City has played a major role in social and political history since 1625. The main themes include history of. unsanitary condition; sanitation laws; organization of government public health agencies; provision of clean water supplies; disasters and epidemics of contagious diseases; the role of physicians and nurses; hospitals, medical schools, and ...
A History of Public Health in New York City, 1866-1966 (1968) the major scholarly study; covers sanitation, water supply, food safety, housing, schools, hospitals, diseases, medical care, and the progress of medicine. online; Duffy, John. “Nineteenth Century Public Health in New York and New Orleans: A Comparison.”
The history of water supply and sanitation is one of a logistical challenge to provide clean water and sanitation systems since the dawn of civilization. Where water resources, infrastructure or sanitation systems were insufficient, diseases spread and people fell sick or died prematurely. Astronaut Jack Lousma taking a shower in space, 1974
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection Police, also known as DEP Police, and formerly known as the Bureau of Water Supply Police and the Aqueduct Police, is a law enforcement agency in New York City whose duties are to protect and preserve the New York City water supply system maintained by the New York City Department of ...
NYCDEP manages three upstate supply systems to provide the city's drinking water: the Croton system, the Catskill system, and the Delaware system. The overall distribution system has a storage capacity of 550 billion US gallons (2.1 × 10 9 m 3) and provides over 1 billion US gallons (3,800,000 m 3) per day of water to more than eight million city residents and another one million users in ...
Cray, Robert E., Jr. Paupers and Poor Relief in New York City and Its Rural Environs, 1700–1830 (Temple UP, 1988) online; Duffy, John. A History of Public Health in New York City, 1866-1966 (1966) covers sanitation, water supply, food safety, crowded housing, hospitals, diseases, medical care, and the progress of medicine. online; Ellis ...
Collect Pond, or Fresh Water Pond, [1] was a body of fresh water in what is now Chinatown in Lower Manhattan, New York City. For the first two centuries of European settlement in Manhattan, it was the main New York City water supply system for the growing city. A jail was later built on the former pond.