THE AMERICAN WATER WORKS ASSOCIATION.

THE AMERICAN WATER WORKS ASSOCIATION.

美国自来水厂组合了二十年ion has pursued the useful and even tenor of its way, and diligently and successfully followed out its business like purpose of doing all that it can to improve the condition of water works systems in this country and to raise the standard of hydraulic engineering to the highest possible pitch of excellence. From its inception, when it was as yet an infant in its cradle, to this day, when it is close upon attaining its majority, the influence of the American Water Works association has made itself felt, and now it is a power, not only in the engineering world, but in the domain of science, since its researches extend into the realms of chemistry and have likewise invaded the territory of bacteriology. Hence it comes that, because through the work of this association greater attention is now paid to investigating the sources of the water supply and more heed taken in securing their protection from anything that is likely to contaminate them, the health of cities and towns has been greatly improved, and the deadly inroads of disease have been stayed—thanks to the care bestowed upon the improvement of the water systems. Nor has the beneficial influence of the association stopped there. It has worked like the proverbial measure of leaven hidden in the flour and multiplied itself a thousandfold. From it have sprung two lusty children—the New England Water Works association and that of the Central States, which, while still looking to the American Water Works association as the rock from whence they were hewn, have boldly struck out on an independent course for the greater and more immediate good of the towns and cities embraced by their narrower limits. Together they form a trinity, not of rivals, but of members of one and the same great family— each co-operating with the other for the general welfare of mankind.

美国自来水厂组合了二十年ion has pursued the useful and even tenor of its way, and diligently and successfully followed out its business like purpose of doing all that it can to improve the condition of water works systems in this country and to raise the standard of hydraulic engineering to the highest possible pitch of excellence. From its inception, when it was as yet an infant in its cradle, to this day, when it is close upon attaining its majority, the influence of the American Water Works association has made itself felt, and now it is a power, not only in the engineering world, but in the domain of science, since its researches extend into the realms of chemistry and have likewise invaded the territory of bacteriology. Hence it comes that, because through the work of this association greater attention is now paid to investigating the sources of the water supply and more heed taken in securing their protection from anything that is likely to contaminate them, the health of cities and towns has been greatly improved, and the deadly inroads of disease have been stayed—thanks to the care bestowed upon the improvement of the water systems. Nor has the beneficial influence of the association stopped there. It has worked like the proverbial measure of leaven hidden in the flour and multiplied itself a thousandfold. From it have sprung two lusty children—the New England Water Works association and that of the Central States, which, while still looking to the American Water Works association as the rock from whence they were hewn, have boldly struck out on an independent course for the greater and more immediate good of the towns and cities embraced by their narrower limits. Together they form a trinity, not of rivals, but of members of one and the same great family— each co-operating with the other for the general welfare of mankind.