Title & Author:

HTO : Toronto's water from Lake Iroquois to lost rivers to low-flow toilets / edited by Wayne Reeves and Christina Palassio.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Toronto : Coach House Books, ©2008.

Description:

327 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Bridging the past, present and future of Toronto's water -- Foundations -- Formed and shaped by water: Toronto's early landscape / Ed Freeman -- Ravines, lagoons, cliffs and spits: The ups and downs of Lake Ontario / Nick Eyles -- resource like no other: Understanding the 11,000 year relationship between people and water / Ronald F. Williamson and Robert I. MacDonald -- Shapeshifters: Toronto's changing watersheds, streams and shorelines / Chris Hardwicke and Wayne Reeves -- Transformations -- When the rivers really ran: Water-powered industry in Toronto / Gary Miedema -- The dustbins of history: Waste disposal in Toronto's ravines and valleys / Richard Anderson -- Storm warning: Hurricane Hazel and the evolution of flood control in Toronto / Chris Bilton -- The long haul: Integrating water, sewage, public health and city-building / Mahesh Patel -- The civic vision for water supply: The Toronto Water Works Extension Project / Steven Mannell -- We all live downstream / Michael McMahon -- Addition and subtraction: the brook, the ravine and the waterworks / Wayne Reeves -- Explorations -- Subterranean Toronto: Where the masquerading lakes lay / Shawn Micallef -- Garrison Creek mouth and the Queen's Wharf: Digging up 200 years of shoreline development / David A. Robertson and Andrew M. Stewart -- The vanishing creeks of South Etobicoke / Michael Harrison -- Streamscape: Rivers of life in the city / Murray Seymour -- Participation/precipitation: Can community-based arts help keep us afloat? / Liz Forsberg and Georgia Ydreos -- Downward / Maggie Helwig -- Water underground: Exploring Toronto's sewers and drains / Michael Cook -- Directions -- Buried alive: Garrison Creek as are discovered extended waterfront / James Brown and Kim Storey -- The living machine: An interview with Helen Mills of the Lost Rivers Project -- The big gulp: How Toronto's Wet Weather Flow Management Master Plan (a name no one likes) will save the lake / John Lorinc -- Re-inhabiting Taddle Creek / Eduardo Sousa -- How the Toronto Bay Initiative reimagined Toronto Harbour / Joanna Kidd -- A tale of two waterfronts / Mark Fram -- Bringing back the Don: Sixty years of community action / Jennifer Bonnell -- High Park waterways: Forward to the past / Jane Schmidt and Frank Remiz -- Bringing in the rain: Is rainwater harvesting the solution to Toronto's energy and water needs? / River Sides -- Bogged down: Water-wise gardeners get the flush / Lorraine Johnson -- Eau de toilette, or how to behave when we're flush / Bert Archer.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9781552452080
1552452085

Subject:

Water Ontario Toronto.
Eau Ontario Toronto.
Water.
Toronto (Ont.)
Ontario Toronto.

Added entries:

Palassio, Christina.
Reeves, Wayne, 1959-

Toronto's water from Lake Iroquois to lost rivers to low-flow toilets

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 260189
Call No.: TD227.O5 H7 2008
Status: Available