Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1901 — AS THE WORLD REVOLVES [ARTICLE]

AS THE WORLD REVOLVES

/tabu Wants Water. •toffr ¥m4c Id having * terrible time •ver the water question.' The papers *fd full of It, and the people are anxto*« to know how matters are going to remedied. The present Supply to inadequate in the first place, and secondly, the water is net fit to be weed when it is finally obtained. Immeaee mime of money are now being •pent for the purpose of increasing the water supply of the metropolis, but even when the work under way is completed conditions will be far from satisfactory, owing to the fact that small streams far up in the country are to be drawn upon, with no possibility of keeping them pure. In this connection it will be of interest to know that even now New York is studying the possibility of seouring water from the great lakes. A •orrespondent of the New York World sags: “The great lakes, from Superior to the St Lawrence river, have the sweetest, purest water on the face of the globe, an unlimited supply that for all time will be inexhaustible. Either Lake Erie or Lake Ontario could be drawn upon for supplying the entire State qf New York. The geological trend from either lake of the land is toward the sea. and water could easily be brought through aqueducts to this city. Engineering skill would surmount all intervening difficulties of grades, and we could have the water problem forever settled.”