Report, 1901-1902: With Minutes of Proceedings and Minutes of Evidence |
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absorption dams Acting Chairman amount of water Appendix average Boksburg calculated cent consider consumption cost Cousens cubic feet December 16 December 30 dolomite formation Doornfontein Engineer estimate evidence farm figures filter filtration flow fontein G. H. Goch gallons per day gallons per diem gallons per head gaugings give Government inches increase irrigation January January 20 Johannes Johannesburg Waterworks JOHN CARR Karlson Klip River Krugersdorp Lance mean ment meter metres miles millimetres million gallons Mooi River November 25 pipe population present Pretoria proposed pumping purposes quantity of water question rainfall Rand referred regard reservoir riparian owners sewage shafts sources springs Spruit square kilometres Standerton statement Station Steenkopjes Stewart stream sufficient supply of water taken Thomson Town Council Transvaal turbines underground Vaal River Vereeniging Vierfontein Syndicate Volksraad water supply Waterworks Company Willcocks Witwatersrand Wonderfontein Zuurbekom
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第 43 頁 - WATER AND ITS PURIFICATION. A Handbook for the Use of Local Authorities, Sanitary Officers, and others interested in Water Supply. By S. RIDEAL, D.Sc. Lond., FIC Second Edition, Revised, with Additions, including numerous Illustrations and Tables. Large Crown 8vo, cloth Net 9/O RURAL WATER SUPPLY.
第 iv 頁 - Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Knight Grand Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St.
第 xi 頁 - We have the honour to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient humble Servants, TB Macaulay, JM MacLeod, GW Anderson, F.
第 45 頁 - Royal Commission, proved that in the making of soup more meat is required with a hard water, and the operation takes a longer time. Vegetables have their colour darkened by the action of the carbonate of lime. For these reasons, it is a common practice to add a little bicarbonate of soda to the water in culinary operations. In baking, the dough rises better, and bread is lighter in colour, when soft water is used. Brewers and distillers find a soft water very desirable, as, when the water...
第 45 頁 - ten ounces of tea made with soft water is as strong as 18 ounces brewed with hard water'; and M. Soyer * * * proved that in the making of soup more meat is required with a hard water, and the operation takes a longer time. Vegetables have their colour darkened by the action of carbonate of lime.
第 44 頁 - ... unsightliness. In some of the most highly colored peaty waters it has been found that there was very little tendency to decomposition. Surface waters in this region are nearly always colored. With reference to colored waters stored in reservoirs the Massachusetts conclusion is that the color of waters exposed to the sun in open reservoirs is reduced by storage, but it must be stored for several months to cause any material reduction of color, and from six months to one year to remove all of it....
第 45 頁 - Another writer f thinks that the loss of fuel has been greatly exaggerated ; and states, as an illustration, that the boiler of a steamtug, the tubes of which when taken out were found to be partly cemented into a solid mass by...
第 49 頁 - WATER. 4"5 senting a considerable range in point of size and industrial and commercial character. STATEMENT OF WATER-SUPPLY OF CERTAIN TOWNS IN GREAT BRITAIN.* 394. For the sake of contrasting with the foregoing supplies, those of other waterworks systems differing considerably from them, we append similar information with regard to a few principal towns in the United States, and some towns of less size situated in the State of Massachusetts. The latter are selected because they are well * Report...
第 170 頁 - I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 4th instant, and to inform you that...
第 86 頁 - Beardmore was a member of the Council of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and a member of the Smeatonian Club.