APPLICATION for EXEMPTION from WATER and NYC Form

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New York is a water-scarce city. Despite being surrounded on all sides by waterways and located in one of the rainier regions of America, the landscape upon which it was built lacks a significant supply of fresh water. To Manhattan’s east, there’s the East River, but its name is a misnomer—it’s not a river. It’s a tidal estuary, connecting one portion of ocean to another, letting them push and pull undrinkable, unusable salt water through. The Hudson River, to the west, does use the term correctly—it is a legitimate freshwater river—but by the time it arrives on the shores of Manhattan it doubles as another ocean estuary. As the tides rise, seawater pushes in against the flow. The river only becomes usable freshwater somewhere between the Tappan Zee Bridge and Poughkeepsie, depending on season and conditions. That’s to say, the waterways that surround New York City, that make Manhattan and Staten and Long the islands they are, are useless to quench the thirst of those l