Show cr bmw 1 CITIES NEED PURE WATER 1 I cannot play upon any stringed instrument els trumont tru ment but I 1 can tell you yon how ot of it little village to make a great and glorious city said the old crek 0 one n a of the most important elements in ants in malting making a small town a great and glorious city is the assuring of an ample supply ot of pure water As cities have gromi bronn larger the problem has become more difficult the extent to which municipal governments have goue gone to insure sufficient ie n t uncontaminated contaminated water for or alel fre beun ih their C citizens ft i s is shown in the case ot of los LOB angeles An fieles Cali toinia a few facts about whose water system should be 0 of value to all in in city planning the municipal water bureau with its supply and distribution system represents an investment ot of more than the main source 0 of supply is a giant aqueduct agu nearly miles in length it is known as tile the owens oens river aqueduct Aqueda ct and is laid across the molave desert Deser tand and up the east side of the sl si aras to tap the melting snows near their summits it took five years so jo complete comple ae and Is capable of 0 meeting the water needs of two million people this aqueduct is said to be the largest in the world bringing water vater to a city fifteen reservoirs are used for or the storage ot of the water they nave have a total capacity of 0 acre teet feet or about gallons gallon this is enough to meet the cites dolue water requirements for an entire year twit without hout being refilled the he network of 0 water mains carrying the water to consumers totals almost the number ot of miles across the continent surveying and other prell preliminary work has been aone for or a second aqueduct about miles long which will be built in the future it will edill increase the capacity until seven million inhabitants can be taken care ot of the water brought tho the melting snows is pure at the source and comes through the aqueduct uncontaminated tamina ted ali problem of keep keeping it pure in the reservoir is met by an elaborate system of 0 tests and sterilizations zat ions 1 instead ot of the old method ot of throwing in powder chlorine gas as is mixed with water in a way similar to the charging of 0 carbonated water and this is run into the tanks it is a significant tact fact that the health department reports that since 1902 not a single case of 0 water borne disease has been reported in the city this one example of the extent to which enterprising cities will go 90 in their struggle to insure pure water vater is indicative ot of its importance in urban 11 file fe |