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Images about Drinking water - Contamination
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Health hazards from nitrates in drinking-water : report on a WHO meeting.
Date: [1985]- Pictures
Death as a ferryman rowing on the river Thames, which is infested with dead animals; representing the danger of drinking Thames water. Wood engraving attributed to John Leech, 1858.
John LeechDate: 10 July 1858Reference: 47060i
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A new process for purifying the waters supplied to the metropolis by the existing water companies : rendering each water much softer, preventing a fur on boiling, separating vegetating and colouring matter, destroying numerous water-insects, and withdrawing from solution large quantities of solid matter, not separable by mere filtration / by Thomas Clark.
Clark, ThomasDate: 1849
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Monster soup commonly called Thames water, being a correct representation of that precious stuff doled out to us!!!.
William HeathDate: [1828?]Reference: 12079i