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A score of court decisions in all parts of the world have now held that the water company is legally responsible for all avoidable pollution of public water-supplies, and nine tenths of pollutions are avoidable.

From A Handbook of Health by Hutchinson, Woods

Miles inland these men will carry their finny wares, stopping at the public water-supplies to moisten the cloth which protects the fish from the sun and dust.

From Spanish Life in Town and Country by Dawson, William Harbutt

Public ownership and control of gas, electric light, and water-supplies, tramway, omnibus, and other locomotive services, and of the food and coal supply.

From British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals by Barker, J. Ellis

But in this country springs have been little used for water-supplies, partly because of the uncertain quantity furnished and partly because of difficulty in acquiring title to the water rights.

From Rural Hygiene by Ogden, Henry N. (Henry Neely)

Bathrooms, water-supplies, lighting, heating, and the whole array of domestic comforts, were unknown at Quincy.

From The Education of Henry Adams by Adams, Henry