OUR PRESENT AND FUTURE WATER SUPPLIES
S. P. AXTELL, C. E., in an article on "Our Present and Future Water Supplies” recently published in the “Engineering Magazine,” enlarges on the difficulties encountered in procuring a supply of wholesome water, owing chiefly to the "characteristics of water as a scavenger and purifier of all decaying and putrescent matter by absorption, and holding in solution the active and death-dealing substances formed and given off in all the different stages of decomposition, and its affinity for all impurities.”
He regards all surface water as " more or less contaminated and liable at anv time to become dangerously so.” owing to its having acted as a flushing and purifying medium-—this applying equally to ground water passing through a foul soil.
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