. Town and city. y broken pipe or open faucetthat lets out water when it is not needed wastes it. Yetno water is wasted that is used for cooking, for drinking,or for keeping people and houses clean. In these wayswe need to be generous with the water we use. When we say that a city supplies water at the rate ofso much per capita, we mean that each persons share isthat amount. This includes all that is used in the cityin every possible way and all that is wasted. In NewYork City the daily per capita rate is one hundred andthirty-five gallons, which means that the waste is enor-mous. If meters we
. Town and city. y broken pipe or open faucetthat lets out water when it is not needed wastes it. Yetno water is wasted that is used for cooking, for drinking,or for keeping people and houses clean. In these wayswe need to be generous with the water we use. When we say that a city supplies water at the rate ofso much per capita, we mean that each persons share isthat amount. This includes all that is used in the cityin every possible way and all that is wasted. In NewYork City the daily per capita rate is one hundred andthirty-five gallons, which means that the waste is enor-mous. If meters were used, millions of gallons would besaved every day; and such a saving as that would makeit impossible for New York City to be threatened by awater famine for many years to come. CHAPTER XIII DRINKING WATER Two thousand years ago the Romans seemed to knowthat pure drinking water is more necessary for thehealth of a city than large houses, good laws, or cleanstreets. They learned this from experience, for at that. The Claudian Aqueduct built over 1800 Years AgoIt carried pure water to Rome from the Latin hills time no one had ever dreamed of such things as diseasemicrobes. The Romans simply noticed that when they werecrowded together in cities, and when they drank waterfrom wells or brooks near which people lived, they were 99 lOO TOWN AND CITY apt to suffer from certain diseases. They were so sureof this that, although the river Tiber ran through thevery heart of Rome, they did not use it for , they built enormous aqueducts that rested onarches and stretched across the country for scores ofmiles, carrying delicious mountain water to the city.
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