Water Supply: The Present Practice of Sinking and Boring Wells; With Geological Considerations and Examples of Wells Executed (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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IN modern times the tendency of the inhabitants of a country to dwell together in large communities, and the consequent need for accumulating in a particular locality a suflicient supply of water for household, social, and industrial purposes, have rendered necessary the construction of such engineering works as impounding reservoirs and wells, by means of which the abundant measure of sparsely populated districts may be utilized, and water obtained not only free from those impuri ties which it collects in densely populated districts, but also in greater quantity than the natural sources of the district are capable of supplying.

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