| Contents Notes |
Starting a waterworks -- Ground water -- Location, maintenance, and construction of wells -- Surface water -- Dams -- Intakes, aqueducts, and long pipe lines -- Stresses in pipe -- Impounding reservoirs -- Pumping stations -- Centrifugal and other pumps -- Well pumps -- Materials for and the design of pipes -- Valves, gates, hydrants, and meters -- Metallic corrosion -- Storage and distributing reservoirs -- Design of distribution systems -- Construction and maintenance of distribution systems -- Quality and treatment of water supplies -- Measures of the quality of water supplies -- Living organisms in water -- Plain sedimentation -- Sedimentation with coagulation -- Sand filtration -- Water softening for public water supplies -- Disinfection -- Miscellaneous methods of water treatment -- Waterworks management. |
