Construction and operation of water works: Fid-Bau Portal

Construction and operation of water works

Eigenbrodt, H.

Aug 24 n 34 p 609-614: Statistical data on population, total and per-capita water consumption and ratio of maximum to minimum daily consumption of large number of German cities and towns; indicates gradual increase in average-per-capita consumption from 90 liters daily, in 1896, to 128 liters in 1920; German chemical and bacteriological standards for potable water. Aug 31 n 35 p 627-631: Sources of water supply; geology of underground water supplies; prospecting for underground water, geophysical methods; artificial filling of gravels by flooding with water; surface supplies. Sept 7 n 36 p 643-647: Utilization of underground water supplies, artesian wells, etc.; examples from Roumanian and other European practice. Sept 14 n 37 p 666-670: Engineering problems of river, lake, and reservoir intakes, illustrated by designs of water-works intakes of Warsaw, Poland; Conception, Uruguay; Athens, Greece, etc. Oct 5 no. 40 pp. 721-724: Principles of water purification by slow and rapid filtration, treatment with ozone, chlorination, etc. Oct 12 n 41 p 734-739: Functions of equalizing distribution reservoirs illustrated by examples; joint water-supply project for Erfurt, Gotha, Jena, Weimar, Amstadt and Apolda calling for construction of gravity concrete dam about 41 m. high.