Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1919 — Field Water Service. [ARTICLE]

Field Water Service.

The British had the best system of piped-in water, though the system along parts of the Italian front was admirable. One sanitary officer informed me with pardonable pride that the supply for three army divisions was piped from a small lake a mile or more within the German lines! This same officer was able to pipe water after a great battle to the new ground won three miles, farther forward —within five hours. English sanitarians devised one of the most perfect combinations of pumping and purifying machines that could be imagined. Its crew could dip its intake pipe into a pond of scum-cov-ered, pea soup-colored, stagnant water,- start the engine, and out ffom the discharge pipe would flow a sternly stream of clear, sparkling, pure, welltasting water, at the rate of 1,000 gallons an hour. To look at the pond and at the water pouring into the drinking tank is said to have given anyone a positive shock. —Woods Hutchinson in “The; Doctor in War.”