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The author tried to show the character and quantity of the water then supplied to every town and urban sanitary authority in England and Wales, and, taking into account principal geological formations and rainfall, to estimate the volume of water available and the quantity required for human consumption in each group of river basins.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
This volume highlights some of the many accomplishments of British hydrogeologists during the last 200 years. Twenty-five essays discuss such topics as the use of groundwater in 19th-century Scottish spas; the contribution of geologists to British army well-drilling units in WWI; and the development of the profession since 1974. Fifteen of the pape.