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History of the Water Supply of the World
Thomas Jefferson Bell
Every city rises or falls on its water, and getting it clean has always been a struggle. Thomas Bell traces the history of the world's water supply, from river pollution and sewage to the purification that made cities livable. A sweeping look at humanity's oldest engineering problem. For readers curious how we learned to tame and cleanse our rivers and wells. Follow water through the ages.
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47 chapters
- 1HISTORY OF THE Water Supply of the World,
- 2CONTENTS
- 3INTRODUCTION.
- 4CHAPTER I.
- 5CHAPTER II. RIVER POLLUTION.
- 6REDUCTION OF SEWAGE BY AERATION.
- 7REDUCTION OF URINE BY AERATION
- 8THAMES RIVER.
- 9QUALITY OF POLLUTION.
- 10CONTAMINATION OF WATER SUPPLY.
- 11CHAPTER III. PURIFICATION OF WATERS.
- 12FILTRATION
- 13SUBSIDENCE
- 14RESULTS OF SUBSIDENCE.
- 15AERATION
- 16CHAPTER IV. SYSTEM OF SUPPLY.
- 17SPRINGS AND WELLS.
- 18POLLUTION OF WELL WATER.
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