The value of pure water / by George C. Whipple.

  • George C. Whipple
Date:
1907
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Credit: The value of pure water / by George C. Whipple. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE DISADVANTAGES OF HARD WATER (From a lecture delivered at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, January 9, 1906.) ARD waters have always been considered objectionable for common use. Universal experience is summed up in the apologetic qualification heard so often, “We have good water here, but it is hard”' In recent years the economic importance of hard waters has been lost sight of to a considerable extent, in view of the greater prominence of sanitary matters. Engineers and manufacturers are now studying the subject anew, and the more it is \ / studied the more its importance becomes apparent. It is seen that in some industries the difference between a hard water and a soft water may mean the difference between loss and profit on the balance sheet; in others it may mean a change of the location of a factory. It may mean a difference in the quality of the manu¬ factured product, or the success or failure of some chemical process. It may mean changes in labor, in rates of transportation, in railroad time-table sched-
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