Report on the Filtration of River Waters: For the Supply of Cities, as Practised in Europe, Made to the Board of Water Commissioners of the City of St. Louis (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Report on the Filtration of River Waters: For the Supply of Cities, as Practised in Europe, Made to the Board of Water Commissioners of the City of St. Louis

To this end I have visited the cities of Genoa, and Leghorn, in Italy of Marseilles, Toulouse, Lyons, Tours, Angers, and Nantes in France of Berlin, Hamburgh, and Altona in North Germany, and of London, Leicester, York, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Perth, and Dublin in Great Britain.

I submit herewith statements descriptive of the modes of filtration in use at each of these places.

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