Physics at the Water Research Association

Abstract

At the beginning of the nineteenth century the population of Great Britain was 10–5 million and, although the industrial revolution was some fifty years old, there were practically no piped supplies of water. Today the population of Great Britain exceeds 50 million, and every town and nearly every village now has a piped supply of potable water. The people of this country are provided with some 3000 million gallons of water every day by water authorities who have spent roughly £600 million on capital works.