World and American History
Ms. Privolos
Fall 2015
Did the Industrial Revolution improve the public water service?
During the Industrial Revolution, the pollution of public water was a silent slayer which was not known to people even at late 1800s. Before the Industrial Revolution and even these days, water’s major usage is for daily water supply, a sweet dew between every so often in a day. Before the Industrial Revolution, people drank water in form of beer and wines. Beer and wine was the 10 percent of every day diet, and it is said that people tend to buy more beer and wine than their groceries, citation?. The Industrial Revolution introduced new technologies to filter water but the pollution was growing too fast to keep the public …show more content…
The Cistercian monks, founded in 1098, the time when the watermill became popular in western Europe. When St. Bernard was on the order, in early twelfth century, he worked for the social freedom. Using watermill, they provided financial independence. In fact, they reached the finest technology of water-power and agricultural technology in next 50 years. The monasteries were built on the man made canals, the running water powering many different fields, from drinking water to sewage.
In the early stages of Industrial Revolution, many cities and factories had no sewage or treating systems for wastewater. The toxic and hazardous waste dumps often were unmonitored or unidentified. The chemicals leached and permeated, poisoning surface and groundwater. Through the government assessment, Polish, was found 50 percent rivers too polluted. 70 percent in industrial regions in Czech were heavily polluted that a third of the rivers had no fish living. Latvia’s port town of Ventspils had heavy oil formed 3ft thick on the river bottom, Venta River with 800 percent exceed the official phenol …show more content…
Although the simple ways such as boiling to keep the drinks clean was lately spread through the books, the methods were found a decades ago. In the book The Quest for Pure Water:The History of Water Purification From the Earliest Records to the Twentieth the methods such as boiling of water over fire, heating of water under sun, dipping of heated iron into water, filtration through gravel and sand were found in Sanskrit writings and inscriptions in ancient Egyptian tombs. As the technology and science improved, scientists also found much more complex and insured ways. 1827, Roberts Thom invented slow sand filtration. It was used worldwide but had defects. The method needed a lot of sand, and was too slow to keep up with the population increase. 1880s, rapid sand filtration was found. This method used two main features of the original slow sand filtration, reverse wash and the false bottom. The differences were the use of the mechanical agitators and involved pretreatments like hardening liquids and settling for reducing waste stuck on the filter, and charcoal filtration for better taste and
Ms. Privolos
Fall 2015
Did the Industrial Revolution improve the public water service?
During the Industrial Revolution, the pollution of public water was a silent slayer which was not known to people even at late 1800s. Before the Industrial Revolution and even these days, water’s major usage is for daily water supply, a sweet dew between every so often in a day. Before the Industrial Revolution, people drank water in form of beer and wines. Beer and wine was the 10 percent of every day diet, and it is said that people tend to buy more beer and wine than their groceries, citation?. The Industrial Revolution introduced new technologies to filter water but the pollution was growing too fast to keep the public …show more content…
The Cistercian monks, founded in 1098, the time when the watermill became popular in western Europe. When St. Bernard was on the order, in early twelfth century, he worked for the social freedom. Using watermill, they provided financial independence. In fact, they reached the finest technology of water-power and agricultural technology in next 50 years. The monasteries were built on the man made canals, the running water powering many different fields, from drinking water to sewage.
In the early stages of Industrial Revolution, many cities and factories had no sewage or treating systems for wastewater. The toxic and hazardous waste dumps often were unmonitored or unidentified. The chemicals leached and permeated, poisoning surface and groundwater. Through the government assessment, Polish, was found 50 percent rivers too polluted. 70 percent in industrial regions in Czech were heavily polluted that a third of the rivers had no fish living. Latvia’s port town of Ventspils had heavy oil formed 3ft thick on the river bottom, Venta River with 800 percent exceed the official phenol …show more content…
Although the simple ways such as boiling to keep the drinks clean was lately spread through the books, the methods were found a decades ago. In the book The Quest for Pure Water:The History of Water Purification From the Earliest Records to the Twentieth the methods such as boiling of water over fire, heating of water under sun, dipping of heated iron into water, filtration through gravel and sand were found in Sanskrit writings and inscriptions in ancient Egyptian tombs. As the technology and science improved, scientists also found much more complex and insured ways. 1827, Roberts Thom invented slow sand filtration. It was used worldwide but had defects. The method needed a lot of sand, and was too slow to keep up with the population increase. 1880s, rapid sand filtration was found. This method used two main features of the original slow sand filtration, reverse wash and the false bottom. The differences were the use of the mechanical agitators and involved pretreatments like hardening liquids and settling for reducing waste stuck on the filter, and charcoal filtration for better taste and