Author: Philadelphia (Pa.). Water Commission. Board of Consulting Engineers
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Category : Water-supply
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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A New Water Supply from Upland Sources
Author: Philadelphia (Pa.). Water Commission. Board of Consulting Engineers
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Category : Water-supply
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Publisher:
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Category : Water-supply
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Report of an Improved Water Supply for the City of Montreal Made to His Worship the Mayor and the Commissioners of the City of Montreal
Author: Fuller & Janin, firm, engineers, Montreal
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Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Publisher:
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Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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A Little Look on Water Supply
Author: William Garnett
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Water Resources of the Batavia Kill Basin at Windham, Greene County, New York
Author: Paul Martin Heisig
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Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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London
Author: John Broich
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822978660
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
As people crowded into British cities in the nineteenth century, industrial and biological waste byproducts and then epidemic followed them. Britons died by the thousands in recurring plagues. Figures like Edwin Chadwick and John Snow pleaded for measures that could save lives and preserve the social fabric. The solution that prevailed was the novel idea that British towns must build public water supplies, replacing private companies. But the idea was not an obvious or inevitable one. Those who promoted new waterworks argued that they could use water to realize a new kind of British society—a productive social machine, a new moral community, and a modern civilization. They did not merely cite the dangers of epidemic or scarcity. Despite many debates and conflicts, this vision won out—in town after town, from Birmingham to Liverpool to Edinburgh, authorities gained new powers to execute municipal water systems. But in London local government responded to environmental pressures with a plan intended to help remake the metropolis into a collectivist society. The Conservative national government, in turn, sought to impose a water administration over the region that would achieve its own competing political and social goals. The contestants over London's water supply matched divergent strategies for administering London's water with contending visions of modern society. And the matter was never pedestrian. The struggle over these visions was joined by some of the most colorful figures of the late Victorian period, including John Burns, Lord Salisbury, Bernard Shaw, and Sidney and Beatrice Webb. As Broich demonstrates, the debate over how to supply London with water came to a head when the climate itself forced the endgame near the end of the nineteenth century. At that decisive moment, the Conservative party succeeded in dictating the relationship between water, power, and society in London for many decades to come.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822978660
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
As people crowded into British cities in the nineteenth century, industrial and biological waste byproducts and then epidemic followed them. Britons died by the thousands in recurring plagues. Figures like Edwin Chadwick and John Snow pleaded for measures that could save lives and preserve the social fabric. The solution that prevailed was the novel idea that British towns must build public water supplies, replacing private companies. But the idea was not an obvious or inevitable one. Those who promoted new waterworks argued that they could use water to realize a new kind of British society—a productive social machine, a new moral community, and a modern civilization. They did not merely cite the dangers of epidemic or scarcity. Despite many debates and conflicts, this vision won out—in town after town, from Birmingham to Liverpool to Edinburgh, authorities gained new powers to execute municipal water systems. But in London local government responded to environmental pressures with a plan intended to help remake the metropolis into a collectivist society. The Conservative national government, in turn, sought to impose a water administration over the region that would achieve its own competing political and social goals. The contestants over London's water supply matched divergent strategies for administering London's water with contending visions of modern society. And the matter was never pedestrian. The struggle over these visions was joined by some of the most colorful figures of the late Victorian period, including John Burns, Lord Salisbury, Bernard Shaw, and Sidney and Beatrice Webb. As Broich demonstrates, the debate over how to supply London with water came to a head when the climate itself forced the endgame near the end of the nineteenth century. At that decisive moment, the Conservative party succeeded in dictating the relationship between water, power, and society in London for many decades to come.
The Surveyor & Municipal & County Engineer
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Publisher:
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Ohio River Basin Comprehensive Survey: (App.D). Water supply and water pollution control
Author: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
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Category : Ohio River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 914
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Publisher:
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Category : Ohio River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 914
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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Public Works
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works
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Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 1206
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Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 1206
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Water Pollution Control Legislation - Waste Water Treatment Technology, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution ...
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 694
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 694
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Water Pollution Control Legislation
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution
Publisher:
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Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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