Growing up here, I think I’ve always been aware of the water system but not that consciously. I had seen the Central Park Reservoir, and we had friends up in Westchester, near Kensico, so there were little bits and pieces. There was a sewer — what turned out to be some kind of sewer plant near where I lived, it was kind of out on the periphery. Then after grad school, I was working in city government, and for one year I worked at DEP and I had a job where the commissioner took me to a lot of his field visits. They were usually to water-main breaks, but one of them was to this incredible cavern, 300 feet underground in the Bronx. And I thought, “Wow, I’m in a James Bond movie,” and that turned out to be part of the new third water tunnel. So I started getting a little bit more interested i

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