Water for a Barren Rock: 150 Years of Water Supply in Hong Kong

by Ho Pui Yin. Translated By Lui Yuen Chung

Hardcover, 2001

Status

Available

Call number

AHC.HOP.WBR

Publication

The Commercial Press (2001), Edition: First Edition

Physical description

250 p.

ISBN

9620763041 / 9789620763045

Call number

AHC.HOP.WBR

Library's review

"Water is precious to life. It is also the lifeblood of Hong Kong. This books gives a lucid account of Hong Kong's 150-year water supply history demonstrating the interplay between economic growth, social development and the evolution of water supply system. These developments are vividly brought
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to life by a large number of unique historical photographs."

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Pages

250
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