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Toronto's Water from Lake Iroquois to Lost Rivers to Low-flow Toilets
Reeves, Wayne; Palassion, Christina (eds.)
Publisher: Coach House Books, Toronto, Canada
Year Published: 2008
Pages: 328pp ISBN: 978-1-55245-208-0
Library of Congress Number: TD227.T6H86 2008 Dewey: 553.709713'541
Resource Type: Book
A collection of essays on Toronto's water and watershed, ranging from burying streams to storm sewers and rainwater harvesting.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Bridging the past, present and future
Foundations
Ed Freeman
Formed and shaped by water: Toronto's early landscape
Nick Eyles
Ravines, lagoons, cliffs and spits: The ups and downs of Lake Ontario
Ronald F. Willianson & Robert I. Mac Donald
A resource like no other: Understanding the 11,000-year relationship between people and water
Chris Hardwicke & Wayne Reeves
Shapeshifters: Toronto's changing watersheds, streams and shorelines
Transformations
Gary Miedema
When the rivers really ran: Water-powered industry in Toronto
Richard Anderson
The dustbins of history: Waste disposal in toronto's ravines and valleys
Chris Bilton
Storm warning: Hurricane Hazel and the evolution of flood control in Toronto
Mahesh Patel
The Long haul: Integrating water, sewage, public health and city-building
Steven Mannell
A civic vision for water supply: The Toronto Water Works Extension Project
Michael McMahon
We all live downstream
Wayne Reeves
Addition and subtraction: The brook, the ravine and the waterworks
Explorations
Shawn Micallef
Subterranean Toronto: Where the masquerading lakes lay
David A. Robertson & Andrew M. Stewart
The Garrison Creek mouth and the Queen's Wharf: Digging up 200 years of shoreline development
Michael Harrison
The canishing creeks of South Etobicoke
Murray Seymour
Streamscape: Rivers of life in the city
Liz Forsberg & Georgia Ydreos
Participation/precipitaion: Can community-based arts help keep us afloat?
Maggie Helwig
Downward
Michael Cook
Water underground: Exploring Toronto's sewers and drains
Directions
James Brown & Kim Storey
Buried alive: Garrison Creek as a rediscovered extended waterfront
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The living machine: An interview with Helen Mills of the Lost Rivers Project
John Lorinc
The big gulp: How Toronto's Wet Weather Flow Management Master Plan (a name no one likes) will save the lake
Eduardo Sousa
Re-inhabiting Taddle Creek
Joanna Kidd
How the Toronto Bay Initiative reimagined Toronto Harbour
Mark Fram
A tale fo two waterfronts
Jennifer Bonnell
Bringing back the Don: Sixty years of community action
Jane Schmidt & Frank Remiz
High Park waterways: Forward to the past
RiverSides
Bringing in the rain: Is rainwater harvesting the solution to Toronto's energy and water needs?
Lorraine Johnson
Bogged down: Water-wise gardeners get the flush
Bert Archer
Eau de toilette, or how to behave when we're flush
Contributors
Illustrations: Sources & credits
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