Papers by Command Volume 38, PT. 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...But it would not affect my argument if it were so, because I think it is admitted on all hands that, whether you go to Wales, or whether you supply the water by a great system of storage, there would be in any case an expenditure of many millions of money. 5845. It makes a great deal of difference whether you go on with the Thames scheme or go to Wales, bnt I understood you to say just now that vouwere looking to the certainty of pollution in the Thames from the increased population in the Thames Valley?--Tea. 5846. Do you think that any amount ef pollution liy increased population would compare at all with the pollution which existed before the sewage was kept out uf the Thames and all the affluents of the Thames, as was the case in times past. If you wore to increase the population of the Thames Valley 20 or 50 fold it would not make anything like the difference which new legislation in reference to the Thames has made in purifying it?--You are much better competent to form an opinion, upon that question than I am. 6847. It is a subject of interest to myself, as I am one of the county representatives on the Thames Conservancy, and I know what has been going on. But if anybody is influenced by the idea that there would be an increased population in the Thames Valley which would bring about a degree of pollution such as formerly existed, they must know very little of the subject. I daresay you know that formerly there were a number of towns upon the Thames and upon the affluents of the Thames which drained their sewage into the Thames until a very recent time?--I am very glad to hear of it. 5848. It is a very sad thing to hear. What is pleasant to hear is that it is all stopped F--That is what I mean--I am pleased to hear that it has been prevented. But ass...