Pipe Dreams: a web exhibit
The history of water and sewer infrastructure in Metro Toronto
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The Web Exhibit
A Metro Archives Exhibit
All the world over
people are becoming
more alive to the
importance of safe,
sanitary
surroundings...and a common enough question
to be asked now-a-days
is: Where does the
sewage go to, and
where does the water
come from?		   Pipe Dreams revives this
hundred year old question
at a time of new concerns
with environmental conditions,
technology, and the human
body. Using archival images
and texts, this site puts some
of these concerns into
historical perspective.
Enter Pipe Dreams. Explore
the underground networks that
link your body to the space and
time of the city beyond.
James Mansergh
Consulting Engineer
Toronto, Canada, 1896

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Pipe Dreams was a Metropolitan Toronto Archives exhibit and was produced in partnership with the Metro Works Department.  

© The Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto, 1997.
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