Description
This work examines formation, growth, and change within the Water Department of Milwaukee, Wisconsin from 1870-1995. It combines areas of history, technology, politics, and policy-making so that you could be aware how municipal decision-making processes decide technological determinations during the history of Water Works. It also discusses how poor communication between technical specialists and policy makers resulted in delays in decision-making in addition to in poor construction choices. The turbulent history covers the struggle to provide a filtration plant, which used to be deeply rooted in differences between political parties; accommodation of suburban demands for products and services of municipal supply; and the cryptosporidium crisis of 1993, at the side of the history, maps, tables, and charts are also contained within.