History of the Water Supply of the World / arranged in a comprehensive form from eminent authorities, containing a description of the various methods of water supply, pollution and purification of waters, and sanitary effects, with analyses of potable waters, also geology and water strata of Hamilton county, Ohio, statistics of the Ohio river, proposed water supply of Cincinnati.

by Thomas J. Bell

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Copyright,

1882,

By Peter G. Thomson.

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CONTENTS

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[Chapter I.]		5
[Chapter II.]	River Pollution.	15
[Chapter III.]	Purification of Waters.	27
[Chapter IV.]	System of Supply.	36
[Chapter V.]	Historical and Statistical.	68
[Chapter VI.]	Other Articles.	92
[Chapter VII.]	Cost of Constructing Water-Works.	125
[INDEX.]		132

INTRODUCTION.

The original intention of this work was to arrange a treatise, in the form of a compilation, of general and local information on water supply, in all its bearings, with special reference to Cincinnati, in view of the fact that the question of a new supply would become an important one when the “Markley Farm Project” presented a more tangible form.