For the infrastructure buff who claims '' city Champagne '' is the only eau for him : WATER-WORKS : The Architecture and Engineering Of the New York City Water Supply edited by Kevin Bone and Gina Pollara -LRB- Monacelli Press , $ 50 -RRB- Nearly 300 luscious pages of text and image recording New York 's attempts since the mid-1800s to corral enough water for its residents .