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Show ISN'T IT A CURIOUS FACT that where New York uses more water for every member of its population than any other city in the world, except Washington, Chicago and Detroit, she should nevertheless be the dirtiest city of them all? One hundred gallons per day to each inhabitant is the rate of supply here, while the Londoner gets but twenty-nine gallons. There is enough water wasted in this city daily to flood the streets and wash away their sickening filth. The trouble with New York is not lack of water, but of systematic government.-Chronicle and Examiner. |