Abstract
A “COUNSEL of perfection” is for every community to obtain its water-supply from a source whicir, like Cresar's wife, should be “above suspicion.” But many communtties have to depend upon a supply which falls 'short of this high standard. This is more particularly the case with reference to the London water-supply, which is drawn mainly from the rivers Thames and Lea; and it is with this supply that Dr. Houston deals in the book under review. The observations and experiments he records appear to establish the fact that considerably polluted river-water can be purified, on a large scale, to a satisfactory standard of safety. This finding is of prime importance, for, as the writer sets out, rivers are likely to be used to an increasing extent as sources of water-supply, seeing that other available sources of supply are limited, and that there is a considerable economy in the selection of riverwater.
Rivers as Sources of Water-Supply.
By Dr. A. C. Houston. Pp. vi + 96. (London: John Bale, Sons, and Danielsson, Ltd., 1917.) Price 5s. net.
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Rivers as Sources of Water-Supply . Nature 99, 282–283 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/099282b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/099282b0
