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Describing the Hudson as drinkable is somewhat ahistorical: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollution_of_the_Hudson_River https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollution_
by sbierwagen 7y ago
Describing the Hudson as drinkable is somewhat ahistorical: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollution_of_the_Hudson_River https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollution_of_the_Hudson_River
In any event, NYC gets its water from upstate, not locally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_water_supply_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_water_supply_sys...
- e12e 7y agoStill, compared to space needed for desalination, it's not obvious that the current scheme uses less area (I do assume you can still do some things, like hiking, in most of this area though) : "One of its largest watershed protection programs is the Land Acquisition Program, under which the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has purchased or protected, through conservation easement, over 130,000 acres (53,000 ha) since 1997"