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A Photographer's Pipe Dream: Capturing New York's Vast Water System
CityLab
Culture
In a new edition of his book Waterworks, Stanley Greenberg documents his adventures through the city's 200-year-old network of reservoirs, aqueducts and sewers.
Most New Yorkers have probably heard the adage that the city's tap water is among the cleanest and tastiest in the world. But few have much knowledge of the vast system that brings said water to their taps (and then flushes it back out into the ocean).
Photographer Stanley Greenberg wants to educate New Yorkers, and everyone else, about this everyday miracle. In 2003, he released Waterworks, a book exploring the far-flung corners of the city's water infrastructure, much of which is off-limits to the general public.
