1900: Reversal of the Chicago River
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With sewage flowing downriver to Lake Michigan, the source of the city’s drinking water, thousands of Chicagoans were dying from the contamination. To solve the problem, engineers created a canal that forced the river to flow away from the lake: an extraordinary feat of modern engineering.
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