Metropolitan water supply, present and future ; in four letters to the "Daily News" newspaper / by John Loude Tabberner.

  • Tabberner, John Loude.
Date:
1850
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Credit: Metropolitan water supply, present and future ; in four letters to the "Daily News" newspaper / by John Loude Tabberner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    With the Author's respectful compliments.] METROPOLITAN WATER SUPPLY, pmn\ anil /iitur^; IN FOUR LETTERS TO THE DAILY NEWS NEWSPAPER. I. Showing that Water is not a commercial property, and ought not to be subjected to commercial control. That the Metropolitati supply should be a public institution, administered by a public commission, possessing powers under an Act of Parliament, as suggested. II. Showing the present monied jyosition of the existing companies; the cost of their present supj^ly to the public; the value of their present plants and the value of all existing interests in the present Water Supply ; ivith an explanation how the whole may be fairly purchased and jmid for by the public; and how an improved supply may be obtained, and the whole Metropo- litan Water service permanently secured as public property, without requiring any advance of money, either from the Government or the Rate-payers, and ivithout increasing the present average rate per house. III. Showing the quantity of Water as at present supplied to the inhabitants from all sources; and the various means available for affording an improved continuous service to every room in every house throughout the Metropolis; at the same time establishing an abundant supply for all-sanitary piurposes. IV. Showing the qualities of the chalk and river Thames Water respectively; and explaining why the water of the chalk forma- tion, beneath and around London, differs in its constituents in different places. By JOHN LOUDE TABBERNER. LONDON: HENRY RENSHAW, No. 1850. 3 5 0, STRAND.