Bell gathers what the authorities of his day knew about supplying cities with water: the systems of the ancient world and modern capitals, the pollution of rivers, methods of purification and the health effects of bad water, with analyses of drinking water and figures for great works such as Boston’s aqueduct. He ends close to home with the geology of Hamilton County, Ohio, and a proposed supply for Cincinnati.
A window on nineteenth-century sanitary engineering for readers interested in how cities learned to drink safely. Download the free EPUB.