On Water & Works -- The Evolution of Water Supplies

The water supplies and water requirements of the modern state.

This is a vast subject and I cannot hope to do more than touch the fringes of it in the short space allotted to me. Clearly, water is the most important and widely used raw material of all. It is vital in every sense of that word. I t is a primary requirement of vegetable life and of animal life (and here I include human life). I need not stress its many domestic uses. Water is essential in pro...

Chemical contamination of water supplies.

Man-made organic chemicals have been found in drinking water for many years. Their numbers and varieties increase as our analytical capabilities improve. The identified chemicals comprise 10 to 20% of the total organic matter present. These are volatile or low molecular weight compounds which are easily identified. Many of them are carcinogenic or mutagenic. Chlorinated compounds have been foun...

The Bacteriological Examination of Water Supplies

The Safety of Public Water Supplies

of which was the fact that throughout the operations on the Western Front there was no epidemic of any water-borne diseases. Bearing in mind that in a large number of instances the ordinary sources of supply were either rendered useless or totally destroyed, and that to make up the deficiency drinking water for the armies had to be taken haphazard from streams, canals and rivers, the entire suc...

Adding fluoride to water supplies.