Reversal of Fortune
99% Invisible
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The Water in the Chicago River Now Resembles Liquid
John Sutter: St. Louis pushed their case to the U.S. Supreme Court, but it didn't work. The canal and river reversal was later called a civil engineering monument of the millennium. Now we're living in a time when the big 19th century interventions in nature seem poised to boomerang back at us. But you could also see this as a lesson in the lengths we will go to survive.
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