LATEST WATER NEWS.
While the city council of Cedar Rapids, Ia., thinks that municipal ownership of the water works system would be for the best interests of the city, and may purchase the plant of the local system, whose contract with the city has just expired, the latter is prepared to make many improvements during the ensuing season. Among these will be an 8,000,000-gallon pumping engine and about $50,000 worth of new main. The opinion prevails that, were politics kept out of the question, the wholemattercould be settled at once, and the contract with the company would be renewed.
The contract for the construction of a filter test plant in Philadelphia is the first step in the direction of a much needed purfication of the water. Assistant State Bacteriologist Pittfield reports the whole watershed of the Schuylkill and its water as being ‘most offensively polluted either directly or indirectly” by sewage, surface discharges, from factories, etc., water closets, privies, coal dust, and liquids saturated with poisonous discharges from the mines, chemical refuse, and the like. “The evil is growing.”
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