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THE Society of Arts has again done useful work in bringing together a jury of experts on the question of water supply; for though the subject has engaged public attention for nearly half a century, has been investigated by Royal Commissions, and inquired into by committees appointed by scientific societies, we still find ourselves face to face with so costly and cumbersome a system of legislature, that although the country receives a rainfall which has been amply demonstrated to be far in excess of all the requirements of human consumption, manufacturing interests and purposes of canalisation, we see large districts suffering all the ills due to a polluted water-supply, whilst in other areas excessive rainfall is passing to the sea in devastating floods.
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National Water Supply . Nature 20, 101–102 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/020101a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/020101a0