THE BRUSH BILL.
SENATOR Brush has brought to the front at Albany the subject of Greater New York's water supply by the introduction into the State senate of a resolution and a bill to provide for a State commission on water supply. His resolution, after the preamble insisting upon the difficulty the State has experienced in keeping the sources of water supply healthful and uncontaminated by sewage, etc., is as follows:
Resolved. That it is the sense of this body that more care should be exercised in the matter of obtaining a pure water supply for the people; that in cases of doubtful purity the best methods of purification which science has revealed should be used and that some limit should be placed upon the taking of water from sewers or any body of water contiguous to sewers or drains, and as the time has arrived when, in the judgment of many, it is time for the State authorities to striously consider this question and inquire into the feasibility of utilizing the large bodies of water in the northern part of the State and possibly the inexhaustible supply in the great chain of lakes for the purpose of supplying the same to the large cities and towns of the State, now, therefore,
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