Notes on Filtration.
The Toledo, Ohio, Blade says that Cleveland must eventually construct a purification plant, and it congratulates the city of Toledo upon securing pure water in “the cheapest and most satisfactory way”—through filtration. The Blade says that if a pipe line had been constructed to the lake, Toledo might have had a few years of comparative freedom from contamination, but that with sewage flowing constantly from the Detroit and Maumee rivers it was only a question of time until a purification plant would have become necessary. “A filtration system does far more than filter water,” says the Blade. “It really alters the character of the water so that the chemical constitutents. as differentiated from material merely in solution, are different at the point of outflow than they are at the intake.”
Water filters to guard the health of the school children of Kansas City, Mo., will be installed in all the schools. The board of education has taken this long delayed action. It was recommended that the matter be referred to the supply committee, and that prices be available to the board at the next regular meeting.
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