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THE increasing attention being given to the provision of wholesome water supplies to dwellers in country districts as well as in urban localities has prompted the author to prepare this very useful and practical treatise dealing in a generally comprehensive, and yet succinct, way with the various problems which arise in connexion with projects of water supply. It includes a discussion on a national water policy for rural and other areas, with transcripts of the provisions of the Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage Act, 1944, and the Water Act, 1945. The greater part of the work is of a practical and detailed character, commencing with a description of underground water resources and means for their conservation and protection from pollution, and then proceeding to discuss such matters as the choice of electric motors and other equipment for pumping installations; concrete and cement for constructional work, including the use of reinforced concrete; automatic pump control; methods of water purification and the sinking of wells. The volume is well illustrated by diagrams, and there are particulars and photographs of installations in Great Britain and abroad, showing current practice in reservoir construction. Among the appendixes is a useful statement of water equivalents and other data. There is a serviceable index.
Current Waterworks Practice
A Practical Treatise on the Provision of Water Supplies for Urban and Rural Communities. ByW. H. Maxwell. Pp. viii + 254 + 20 plates. (London: B. T. Batsford, Ltd., 1946.) 21s. net.
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C., B. Current Waterworks Practice. Nature 160, 775 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160775d0
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