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Jan 1928
Water-Works
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Prior to 1870 the history of water-works in the United States present a picture of isolated and spasmodic community efforts to obtain supplies, then, for about a generation, increased activity due largely to the enterprise of business men making water-works equipment, and then a continuous and fairly active growth caused by the rapid increase in urban population, culminating in the general recognition-since 1900-that the design and operation of modern water-works offer opportunities for research, engineering, and administrative skill of the highest grade.
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Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Volume 92 • Issue 1 • January 1928
Pages: 1209 - 1224
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© 1928 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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George W. Fuller, M.ASCE
In the preface to the Third (1887) Edition of his “Statistical Tables of American Water Works.”
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