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Dirty water has killed more humans than all the wars of history combined, but in the last 150 years, a series of radical ideas, extraordinary innovations and unsung heroes have changed our world. Johnson plunges into a sewer to understand what made a maverick engineer decide to lift the city of Chic...
| Uniform Title: | How we got to now (Television program). |
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English. |
| Published: |
[United States]:
Nutopia,
[2014]
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| Summary: | Dirty water has killed more humans than all the wars of history combined, but in the last 150 years, a series of radical ideas, extraordinary innovations and unsung heroes have changed our world. Johnson plunges into a sewer to understand what made a maverick engineer decide to lift the city of Chicago with screw jacks in order to build America's first sewer system. He talks about John Leal, who deliberately 'poisoned' the water supply of 200,000 people when, without authorization, he added chlorine, considered lethal in 1908, into Jersey City's water and made it safe to drink. This isn't only about the world becoming a cleaner place - the iPhone, the subway, flat screen TVs and even the bikini are the result of the valiant efforts of the unsung heroes of clean. |
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| Item Description: | Orginally produced as a television episode of How we got to now in 2014. Title from title screen (viewed August 7, 2023) |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (56 min.) : sound, color and black and white |
| Playing Time: | 00:55:14 |
| Production Credits: | Music, Voodoo Highway Music ; director of photography, Andrew Jackson. |