Download or read book A Pure Water Supply and Its Preservation (Classic Reprint) written by Continental Water Meter Company and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-26 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Pure Water Supply and Its Preservation Is the subject of earnest consideration in our thickly settled towns and cities. Of the three great essentials of life - air, water, and food -the second named may be regarded not only as the chief constituent part of man, but also as peculiarly under his care and control. Seventy-five per cent, of his whole body is made up of the elements of water; ninety five per cent, of the healthy blood which flows in his veins is water; and more than eighty per cent, of the foods which give him life and strength is water. In its agencies, too, water is marvellous. In its purity it is a priceless blessing, and in its abundance the ready servant of the useful and mechanical arts; while, on the other hand, its loss admits no substitution, and in its pollution it becomes the wide-spreading source of pestilence and death. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.