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" Each million gallons of polluted Allegheny River water pumped to Pittsburg has, therefore, reduced the vital assets of the community by $110. This, for a population of 350,000, amounts to $3,850,000 per year — a sum enormously greater than the cost... "
Studies in Water Supply - Page 129
by Alexander Cruikshank Houston - 1913 - 203 pages
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Biological Studies by the Pupils of William Thompson Sedgwick: Published in ...

Biology - 1906 - 358 pages
...taken as £$$ of $275, or $110 per million gallons. Each million gallons of polluted Allegheny River water pumped to Pittsburg has therefore reduced the...$3,850,000 per year — a sum enormously greater than the cost of making the water pure. Classifying water supplies according to their source, the following...
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The Value of Pure Water

George Chandler Whipple - Water - 1907 - 106 pages
...taken as $££ of $275, or $110 per million gallons. Each million gallons of polluted Allegheny River water pumped to Pittsburg has therefore reduced the...greater than the annual cost of making the water pure. Classifying water-supplies according to their source, the following will give a general idea as to...
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Our Wasteful Nation: The Story of American Prodigality and the Abus E of Our ...

Rudolf Cronau - Natural resources - 1908 - 170 pages
...basis, that "each million gallons of polluted Alleghany River water pumped to Pittsburg has heretofore reduced the vital assets of the community by $110....greater than the annual cost of making the water pure." The most ridiculous of all our waste of human lives and of property as well, occurs every year on that...
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Typhoid fever

George Chandler Whipple - 1908 - 516 pages
...taken as |-f § of $275, or $110 per million gallons. Each million gallons of polluted Allegheny River water pumped to Pittsburg has, therefore, reduced...$3,850,000 per year — a sum enormously greater than the cost of making the water pure. Classifying water supplies according to their source, the following...
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Typhoid Fever: Its Causation, Transmission and Prevention

George Chandler Whipple - Typhoid fever - 1908 - 492 pages
...taken as |-$g of $275, or $110 per million gallons. Each million gallons of polluted Allegheny River water pumped to Pittsburg has, therefore, reduced...$3,850,000 per year' — a sum enormously greater than the cost of making the water pure. Classifying water supplies according to their source, the following...
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Typhoid Fever: Its Causation, Transmission and Prevention

George Chandler Whipple - Typhoid fever - 1908 - 494 pages
...taken as £{JJJ of $275, or $110 per million gallons. Each million gallons of polluted Allegheny River water pumped to Pittsburg has, therefore, reduced...of the community by $110. This, for a population of 350,00x3, amounts to $3,850,0x20 per year — a sum enormously greater than the cost of making the...
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Proceedings of a Conference of Governors

1909 - 508 pages
...basis, that "each million gallons of polluted Allegheny river water pumped to Pittsburg has heretofore reduced the vital assets of the community by $110....than the annual cost of making the water pure." In like manner he calculates that the increased value of the water to the city of Albany, where the typhoid...
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Proposed Department of Public Health

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Health and National Quarantine - 1910 - 234 pages
...basis, that " each million gallons of polluted Allegheny River water pumped to Pittsburg has heretofore reduced the vital assets of the community by $110....than the annual cost of making the water pure." In view of the great importance of the subject of pure water, which is strikingly illustrated in the chart...
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United States Congressional Serial Set, Issue 5660

United States - 1910 - 1032 pages
...basis, that "each million gallons of polluted Allegheny River water pumped to Pittsburg has heretofore reduced the vital assets of the community by $110. This, for a population of 850.000. amounts to ?3,S50,000 per year, a sum enormously greater than the annual cost of making the...
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Joint Conference of Those Interested in the Conservation and Development of ...

Michigan. Public Domain Commission - Conservation and Development of the Natural Resources of Michigan [conference] - 1912 - 130 pages
...— that each million gallons of polluted Alleghany River water pumped into Pittsburg has heretofore reduced the "vital assets" of the community by $110....greater than the annual cost of making the water pure. It is said that running water purifies itself every eight miles, but the fact is, that water once polluted...
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