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1 online resource : illustrations (some color), maps |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Bridging the past, present and future of Toronto's water -- Foundations -- Formed and shaped by water: Toronto's early landscape / Ed Freeman -- Ravines, lagoons, cliffs and spits: The ups and downs of Lake Ontario / Nick Eyles -- resource like no other: Understanding the 11,000 year relationship between people and water / Ronald F. Williamson and Robert I. MacDonald -- Shapeshifters: Toronto's changing watersheds, streams and shorelines / Chris Hardwicke and Wayne Reeves -- Transformations -- When the rivers really ran: Water-powered industry in Toronto / Gary Miedema -- The dustbins of history: Waste disposal in Toronto's ravines and valleys / Richard Anderson -- Storm warning: Hurricane Hazel and the evolution of flood control in Toronto / Chris Bilton -- The long haul: Integrating water, sewage, public health and city-building / Mahesh Patel -- The civic vision for water supply: The Toronto Water Works Extension Project / Steven Mannell -- We all live downstream / Michael McMahon -- Addition and subtraction: the brook, the ravine and the waterworks / Wayne Reeves -- Explorations -- Subterranean Toronto: Where the masquerading lakes lay / Shawn Micallef -- Garrison Creek mouth and the Queen's Wharf: Digging up 200 years of shoreline development / David A. Robertson and Andrew M. Stewart -- The vanishing creeks of South Etobicoke / Michael Harrison -- Streamscape: Rivers of life in the city / Murray Seymour -- Participation/precipitation: Can community-based arts help keep us afloat? / Liz Forsberg and Georgia Ydreos -- Downward / Maggie Helwig -- Water underground: Exploring Toronto's sewers and drains / Michael Cook -- Directions -- Buried alive: Garrison Creek as are discovered extended waterfront / James Brown and Kim Storey -- The living machine: An interview with Helen Mills of the Lost Rivers Project -- The big gulp: How Toronto's Wet Weather Flow Management Master Plan (a name no one likes) will save the lake / John Lorinc -- Re-inhabiting Taddle Creek / Eduardo Sousa -- How the Toronto Bay Initiative reimagined Toronto Harbour / Joanna Kidd -- A tale of two waterfronts / Mark Fram -- Bringing back the Don: Sixty years of community action / Jennifer Bonnell -- High Park waterways: Forward to the past / Jane Schmidt and Frank Remiz -- Bringing in the rain: Is rainwater harvesting the solution to Toronto's energy and water needs? / River Sides -- Bogged down: Water-wise gardeners get the flush / Lorraine Johnson -- Eau de toilette, or how to behave when we're flush / Bert Archer. |
| Summary |
Drained by a half-dozen major watersheds, cut by a network of deep ravines and fronting on a Great Lake, Toronto is dominated by water. Like most cities, though, Toronto has mismanaged its water, from the decades-long transformation of the city's creeks into sewersheds to the alteration of Toronto's waterfront. Recently, the trend of fettering Toronto's water and putting it underground has been countered by persistent citizen-led efforts to recall and restore the city's surface water. In HTO: Toronto's Water from Lake Iroquois to Lost Rivers to Low-flow Toilets, 30 contributors examine the ev. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Toronto (Ont.)
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Water -- Ontario -- Toronto.
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Water. |
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Ontario -- Toronto. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Reeves, Wayne, 1959-
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Palassio, Christina.
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| Added Title |
Toronto's water from Lake Iroquois to lost rivers to low-flow toilets |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Reeves, Wayne. HTO : Toronto's Water from Lake Iroquois to Lost Rivers to Low-flow Toilets. New York : Coach House Books, ©2011 9781552452080 |
| ISBN |
9781770561038 (electronic book) |
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177056103X (electronic book) |
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9781770561021 (electronic book) |
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1770561021 (electronic book) |
| Music No. |
EB00651359 Recorded Books |
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