[Water supply of towns].

Date:
[1856]
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Credit: [Water supply of towns]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAMBERS'S PAPERS FOR THE PEOPLE. WATER SUPPLY OF TOWNS. WATEE, in consequence of its intimate connection with so many of the tastes, conveniences, and necessities of life, becomes a subject of Tiniversal and never-failmg interest. Its' position in the landscape as sea, lake, and running stream, affects the sense of beauty; to the eye of the naturalist engaged in classifymg and describing the contents of the globe it is a substance having numerous properties and relations; it is a gi-and example of the mechanical laws and gravitating power impressed upon all material -tilings; and as an agent in the economy of the world, it enters largely into the operations of production and change. It is the highway of the T.'orld, the cheap defence of nations, the boundary of possessions, the_ element of existence to an immense living population. Lastly, it is an indispensable requisite and manifold convenience of the every-day life of Junnan beings: alike to the uncivilised and civilised, to the roaming tribes of the wild, and the settled inhabitants of our crowded cities. Tlie uses of water in daily life lead to the adoption of means for providmg it in proper quantity, quality, and readiness to every place of human habitation; and among the various arts that make up our civilisation, this has a leadhig position of importance. Of late years great improvements have been introduced into the department of the public water supply, and efforts continue to be made towards still fertlier improvements. Our object m the present Paper is to touch upon the cluef points of information connected with tlie sources and quaUties of water, and the public arrangements for the supply of town populations- restricting ourselves solely to the condition and requirements of our own country. No. 49. Vol. vn. ^