Purification of the water-supplies of cities

✍ Scribed by Albert R. Leeds

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1887
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 724 KB
• Volume: 123
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(87)90203-1

✦ Synopsis

Tim ITR,\NKMN INSTITUTE iS not responsible for the statements and opinions advanced by contribulors to the JOUi~NAL. PURIFICATION ol~' Tm~ WATER-.qUPPLIES OF CITIES. I]¥ AI,BERT 1-~, TA';EDS, PH.D. [=1 L&'tlo'c de'//vzcJ~'d bCfO~'e" /lie t=RANKTAN INSTITUTE, TX'ltrsdal', Dt'c,'Blb~'J 4i >, z<~>S#.] TIlE LECTURER was introduced by Dr. Wahl, the Secretary of the INsTrrUTfq and spoke as follows :

ACTING UNDER INSTRIJCTIONS from the Aqueduct Boards of Newark and Jersey City, I spent the past summer in examining the water-supplies of the large cities in England and Scotland. Many of these cities have already passed through crises in the history of their water-supplies, similar to those at present agitating American communities. It is of the remedies which they have adopted, and of the pressing needs of Philadelphia, Albany, Newark, Jersey City, Wilmington, Washington and other places, that I propose to speak this evening.

Our modern manufacturing towns increase in population with such rapidity that they soon find their local sources of water-supply insufficient in quantity, and dangerous to health from pollution by