{"id":4257,"date":"2015-01-08T11:29:18","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T16:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4257"},"modified":"2015-01-08T11:29:18","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T16:29:18","slug":"an-unexpected-success-story-links-our-health-to-wild-lands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4257","title":{"rendered":"An Unexpected Success Story Links Our Health to Wild Lands"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onthecommons.org\/magazine\/an-unexpected-success-story-links-our-health-to-wild-lands\" target=\"_blank\">An Unexpected Success Story Links Our Health to Wild Lands<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Environmental disasters caused by human folly\u00a0are all too familiar. But what about the environmental serendipity? The unexpected stories where nature and humans co-exist harmoniously.\u00a0 They do happen, and some may\u00a0be found close at hand by looking at\u00a0your faucet and following the water back to its source.<\/p>\n<p>Before New York and Boston were fierce baseball competitors, they shared a certain wisdom about their drinking water supplies.\u00a0 Boston\u00a0draws its water from the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mwra.com\/04water\/html\/watsys.htm\">Quabbin and Wachusetts reservoirs<\/a>\u00a0west of the city. North of New York City stretches the metropolis\u2019 water sources \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/html\/dep\/html\/dep_projects\/catdel_wide.shtml\">the Croton and Catskill-Delaware watersheds<\/a>. Gravity is a good friend to these port cities. Both receive their water, largely unfiltered and un-pumped, from protected watersheds in the hills.<\/p>\n<p>Both of these success stories\u00a0go back to the days when foul water and a spate of dysentery could lose you an election. This pushed politicians to direct engineers and urban planners to find safe water sources. With populations booming in the 1800s, Boston and New York looked to their hinterlands to quench their growing<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Unexpected Success Story Links Our Health to Wild Lands Environmental disasters caused by human folly\u00a0are all too familiar. But what about the environmental serendipity? The unexpected stories where nature and humans co-exist harmoniously.\u00a0 They do happen, and some may\u00a0be found close at hand by looking at\u00a0your faucet and following the water back to its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[271,2505,567,866,2506],"class_list":["post-4257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-environment-2","tag-environmental-disasters","tag-new-york","tag-water","tag-watersheds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4258,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4257\/revisions\/4258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}