Abstract
IT is an obvious truism that water is the commonest and most plentiful substance in nature. Oceans, seas, lakes, rivers, floods, and streams innumerable testify to its universality, and its indispensability is no less manifest. Whenever man penetrates into virgin territory, his first care is to find water; wherever civilisation sets up her ultimate standard of health and comfort, she establishes and secures an efficient water supply. Water is the embodiment of all that is delightful in art, useful in. industry, valuable to commerce, and essential to existence.
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C., B. Water Supply in the United States 1 . Nature 82, 262–263 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/082262b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/082262b0
