Upstate New York is wealthy in water (a lot of it went unused). NYC is wealthy in economic activity that is taxed at a high rate to provide the State with resources. Are those resources allocated in a manner that is fair and equitable? I don't know.

There's 4 parts to this series:

https://placesjournal.org/series/reservoir-nature-culture-in...

This journal is just full of really interesting reading! "Public scholarship on architecture, landscape, and urbanism"