Creating a Subterranean River and Supplying a Metropolis With Mountain Water (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Creating a Subterranean River and Supplying a Metropolis With Mountain WaterWith the exception of rapid transit, there is no problem of the city's need which has proved more serious, more pressing or more difficult, at least in recent years, than that of providing an adequate supply of pure drinking water. At frequent intervals the city has been threatened by that justly dreaded terror, 9. Water famine justly dreaded, because a shortage, to say nothing of a total failure, of water might mean an outbreak of pestilence, to say nothing of the loss and inconvenience occasioned by the shutting down of the various factories and smaller industries which a shortage of the water supply would necessitate.It is not so very many months since the whole city was watching, with a very anxious eye, the steady fall of the water levels in the various reservoirs of the Croton watersheds, for a season of drought, extending far into the winter, had served to bring the hitherto re mote peril close to its very doors.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.