Selects: NYC Water: An Engineering Marvel

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🗓️ 25 November 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Getting the rain and melted snow from upstate NY into the taps of every NYC resident and business is one of the great feats of engineering. Does it taste great and make perfect bagels and pizza crust? Sources say yes! Learn all about it in this classic episode.

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1:01.5	Howdy everybody. I hope you're having a lovely Saturday wherever you are in the world. Chuck here with a Saturday select selection and I'm going to go with from November 2019 not even so long ago as the crow flies.
1:16.5	The episode is NYC Water colon an engineering marvel.
1:21.8	I love New York City, everyone knows that, I go on and on about
1:26.2	that city on the show and I am constantly amazed that city runs and that the trash gets taken away and the mail gets delivered and that people have
1:39.6	enough drinking water and water to bathe in and cook with.
1:43.7	And so it's a pretty unique situation there in New York,
1:46.6	how they get their water.
1:47.8	And here's that story.
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