Goddesses and Empresses: Coiffure and Character Physiognomy

Title : Goddesses and Empresses: Coiffure and Character Physiognomy  
Author : Charles Clarke
Source : Windsor Magazine
Year Published : 1911
Page Count : 11
Image Count : 23
Word Count : 4,715
File Size in MB : 6.4
File Type : PDF

As a matter of fact, we are economical with water compared with American cities, and our cousins across the “ herring pond ” use an average of one hundred gallons per head per day , while London keeps its drawings at under thirty - two gallons. This is, to a considerable extent, the work of the waste water detectives. The importance of detecting waste of water in the pipes can perhaps be better grasped when it is remembered that the Metropolitan Water Board has 6,197 miles of pipes in its system, from which branch off a much greater mileage of lead pipes leading to houses and other parts where the water is actually drawn for use:

A leak, great or small, may develop in any part of these buried pipes, and, were it not...