{"id":6211,"date":"2012-02-21T21:51:18","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T02:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=6211"},"modified":"2012-02-22T13:13:59","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T18:13:59","slug":"giant-tube-to-supply-water-for-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2012\/02\/giant-tube-to-supply-water-for-millions\/","title":{"rendered":"giant tube to supply water for ten millions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The wonder of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Interbasin_transfer\">inter-basin transfer<\/a>, in the <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=79oDAAAAMBAJ&amp;pg=PA214&amp;dq=Popular+Science+1933+plane+%22Popular+Mechanics%22&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=RasMTuyGFYifsQLC3sGzCg&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=2&amp;ved=0CC0Q6AEwATgK#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=true\">August 1937 issue of <em>Popular Mechanics<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6213\" title=\"delaware-aqueduct_pop-mechanics_2\" src=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/delaware-aqueduct_pop-mechanics_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"718\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6212\" title=\"delaware-aqueduct_pop-mechanics_1\" src=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/delaware-aqueduct_pop-mechanics_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"723\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(The <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=79oDAAAAMBAJ&amp;lpg=PA214&amp;dq=Popular%20Science%201933%20plane%20%22Popular%20Mechanics%22&amp;pg=PP1#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=true\">cover of that same issue<\/a>, which wonders at the electrical power produced by and transmitted from Lake Mead, is also worth a look.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wonder of inter-basin transfer, in the August 1937 issue of Popular Mechanics: (The cover of that same issue, which wonders at the electrical power produced by and transmitted from Lake Mead, is also worth a look.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,137,15],"tags":[682,133,696,351],"class_list":["post-6211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","category-engineering","category-infrastructure","tag-drylands","tag-hydrology","tag-infrastructural-histories","tag-new-york-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6211"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6217,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6211\/revisions\/6217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}