Clean Water and How to Get It

Abstract

THERE is probably no engineering topic at the present day of more striking importance to the public welfare than that relating to the supply of pure water for domestic purposes to large centres of population. Health, physical fitness, comfort and general well-being are all bound up in the solution of a problem which becomes daily increasingly difficult, and, at the same time, increasingly Urgent, with the rapid growth and development of manufacturing towns, quite apart from the consideration of its equally essential application to the smallest hamlet and to the individual. An age which no longer recognises disease and degeneration as the unalterable and inscrutable decrees of a mysterious Providence, but as evils to be resolutely combated, with every hope of a successful issue, cannot for one moment tolerate the idea of polluted sources and germ-ridden channels for its supplies of water—that element so indispensable to existence and so inseparable a constituent of nature itself.

Clean Water and How to Get It.

By Allen Hagen. Pp. x + 178; illustrated. (New York: John Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1907.) Price 6s. 6d. net.