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Excerpt from Report of Sanitary Investigations of the Illinois, Mississippi and Missouri Rivers: With Relation to the Effect of the Sewage of the City of Chicago, and the Sanitary Conditions of the Water Supplies of the Cities of Chicago and St. Louis What shall be the effect of the Chicago Drainage Canal upon the water supply Of the city of Chicago, which is drawn from Lake Michigan, and upon the water supply of the city Of St. Louis, which is drawn from the Mississippi River, is the sanitary problem which apparently gives most concern to these two great cities, and through these cities Illinois and Missouri are interested and involved. From the time the city of Chicago first began to develop into a trading post of some importance, the citizens have had to rely upon Lake Michigan for water for domestic use. In the early days the water was distributed throughout the city by water carriers, who would fill their water carts from the lake with buckets and distribute the water to the citizens. About fifty years ago the first water works system for distributing water by means of pipes was constructed in Chicago, and from that time the water supply sys tem has been developed until today it represents millions of dollars of in vestment, hundreds Of miles Of distributing mains, and supplies water to about two million people, or more than one-third Of the population of the state Of Illinois. The water supply is still taken from Lake Michigan, but instead of being drawn from near the shore as formerly, it is now taken through tunnels which extend from two miles to four miles under the bottom of the lake to where the intake cribs have been located. These tunnels have been built under the lake at great cost for the purpose of securing pure water from Lake Michigan, but with only partial success. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.