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History of the Water Supply of the World

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History of the Water Supply of the World

Thomas Jefferson Bell

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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

  1. 1HISTORY OF THE Water Supply of the World,
  2. 2CONTENTS
  3. 3INTRODUCTION.
  4. 4CHAPTER I.
  5. 5CHAPTER II. RIVER POLLUTION.
  6. 6REDUCTION OF SEWAGE BY AERATION.
  7. 7REDUCTION OF URINE BY AERATION
  8. 8THAMES RIVER.
  9. 9QUALITY OF POLLUTION.
  10. 10CONTAMINATION OF WATER SUPPLY.
  11. 11CHAPTER III. PURIFICATION OF WATERS.
  12. 12FILTRATION
  13. 13SUBSIDENCE
  14. 14RESULTS OF SUBSIDENCE.
  15. 15AERATION
  16. 16CHAPTER IV. SYSTEM OF SUPPLY.
  17. 17SPRINGS AND WELLS.
  18. 18POLLUTION OF WELL WATER.

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