{"id":5,"date":"2023-01-21T00:40:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T00:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aprilbeisaw.com\/waterbook\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2023-02-09T17:56:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T17:56:44","slug":"index","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aprilbeisaw.com\/waterbook\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking Our Water for the City"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By April M. Beisaw<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tap water enables the development of cities in locations with insufficient natural resources to support such populations. For the last 200 years, New York City has obtained water through a network of nineteen reservoirs and controlled lakes, some as far as 125-miles away. Engineering this water system required the demolition of rural communities, removal of cemeteries, and rerouting of roadways and waterways. The ruination is ongoing. This archaeological examination of the New York City watershed reveals the cultural costs of urban water systems. Urban water systems do more than reroute water from one place to another. At best, they redefine communities. At worst, they erase them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"331\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/aprilbeisaw.com\/waterbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/01\/Water-Book-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Taking Our Water for the City: The archaeology of New York City's Watershed Communities&quot; by April M Beisaw\nCover background is a black and white image of a wooden home on the edge of a drop-off, outline of a misty hill in the background, as the water rushes through the house and spills out of the windows on one side. The home is being inundated with water as people fill what used to be settled land to make a water reservoir that will serve New York City.\" class=\"wp-image-6\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aprilbeisaw.com\/waterbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/01\/Water-Book-Cover.jpg 331w, https:\/\/aprilbeisaw.com\/waterbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/01\/Water-Book-Cover-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Available now anywhere you purchase or borrow books, including<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/BeisawTaking\">Berghahn Books<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/taking-our-water-for-the-city-the-archaeology-of-new-york-city-s-watershed-communities-april-m-beisaw\/18492931?ean=9781800738140\">Bookshop.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Taking-Our-Water-City-Archaeology-ebook\/dp\/B0B17341PH\">Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/1347434497\">Your local library<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watch Dr. Beisaw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FDS0g5M7wzw&amp;ab_channel=TimeandtheValleysMuseum\">talk about the book<\/a> and about <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/GxqrvMfeYnA\">some of the impacts of the Ashokan Reservoir<\/a> on the local community on youtube.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"javascript:\/\/\">April M. Beisaw<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie New York. Since publishing&nbsp;<em>Identifying and Interpreting Animal Bones: A Manual,<\/em>&nbsp;with Texas A&amp;M University Press, April has focused on the archaeology of the recent past. Her work on the impacts of the New York City water system on contemporary watershed communities has appeared in the I<em>nternational Journal of Historical Archaeology<\/em>&nbsp;and as a chapter within the volume&nbsp;<em>Contemporary Archaeology and the City: Creativity, Ruination, and Political Action<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By April M. Beisaw Tap water enables the development of cities in locations with insufficient natural resources to support such populations. 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