Excerpt from Water Waste Prevention Its Importance and the Evils Due to Its Neglect: With an Account of the Methods Adopted in Various, Cities in Great Britain and the United States

Uring the summer of 1882 the Editor of the sanitary engineer carefully investigated the methods employed in various cities in Great Britain for curtailing the waste of water without subjecting the respective communities to either inconvenience or a limited allowance. The results of this investigation appeared in a series of articles entitled New York's water-supply, the purpose being to present to the readers of the sanitary engineer such facts as would stimulate public sentiment in support of the enforcement of measures tending to prevent the excessive waste of water so prevalent in American cities, and especially the city of New York, which was then suffering from a short supply.

Numerous requests for information, together with the recent popular agitation in connection with a proposition to increase the powers of the Water Department of New York City with a View to enabling it to restrict the waste of water, have suggested the desirability of reprinting these articles in a more convenient and accessible form, with data giving the results of efforts in this direction in American cities since the articles first appeared, so far as they have come to the author's notice and also to furnish information regarding the enforce ment of needed regulations to which there might be more or less opposition due to misapprehension. A careful perusal of this record of the experience of other cities will indicate that it is entirely feasible to control and improve the character of the water-fittings and plumbing work without requiring the use of patented appliances, and that no special system for all places is recommended.

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