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Description:Excerpt from Journal of the New England Water Works Association, Vol. 36: 1922Following the drought season of 1910 and 1911 there seemed to be an awaking of the interest of the public in the matter of their water supply, with a good sized percentage of them in one way or another getting some posting, more or less accurate, perhaps sometime entirely erroneous, as to where their supply came from and some of the conditions of their service.Formerly a great mass of people seemed to think that water should be free as air, but that, owing to the Municipality or some man or men having obtained the rights to serve in their territory, a tax was imposed on them. The sound shore district of New York State is a residential section with a population of as high average intelligence as elsewhere; vet numbers of them do not seem to be able to get away from the idea that we tax them and grade the tax according to the size of a house and the number of persons we believe occupy it, using our meters in some way that they do not understand to back up our arguments.Some of you may recall the late Mayor Gaynor, a few years ago, writing an open letter to the Commissioner of Water Supply of New York City in which he expressed an opinion to the effect that the public should be encouraged to use as much water as they could in their dwellings, that it would be unwise to install meters in the tenements or houses of the poorer persons as they would be apt to use less water for bathing or culinary purposes, certainly they should not be charged by meter and that their tax should be as low as possible.A certain percentage of those who take issue with us in relation to the amount of their charge, insufficient volume or something else, are really just trying it on; hoping that they will be slick enough to some how or other come out ahead, but probably a majority of those who take up such matters with us don't at all clearly understand the situation. Many are convinced that they are right, that we are in error.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Journal of the New England Water Works Association, Vol. 36: 1922 (Classic Reprint). To get started finding Journal of the New England Water Works Association, Vol. 36: 1922 (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Excerpt from Journal of the New England Water Works Association, Vol. 36: 1922Following the drought season of 1910 and 1911 there seemed to be an awaking of the interest of the public in the matter of their water supply, with a good sized percentage of them in one way or another getting some posting, more or less accurate, perhaps sometime entirely erroneous, as to where their supply came from and some of the conditions of their service.Formerly a great mass of people seemed to think that water should be free as air, but that, owing to the Municipality or some man or men having obtained the rights to serve in their territory, a tax was imposed on them. The sound shore district of New York State is a residential section with a population of as high average intelligence as elsewhere; vet numbers of them do not seem to be able to get away from the idea that we tax them and grade the tax according to the size of a house and the number of persons we believe occupy it, using our meters in some way that they do not understand to back up our arguments.Some of you may recall the late Mayor Gaynor, a few years ago, writing an open letter to the Commissioner of Water Supply of New York City in which he expressed an opinion to the effect that the public should be encouraged to use as much water as they could in their dwellings, that it would be unwise to install meters in the tenements or houses of the poorer persons as they would be apt to use less water for bathing or culinary purposes, certainly they should not be charged by meter and that their tax should be as low as possible.A certain percentage of those who take issue with us in relation to the amount of their charge, insufficient volume or something else, are really just trying it on; hoping that they will be slick enough to some how or other come out ahead, but probably a majority of those who take up such matters with us don't at all clearly understand the situation. Many are convinced that they are right, that we are in error.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Journal of the New England Water Works Association, Vol. 36: 1922 (Classic Reprint). To get started finding Journal of the New England Water Works Association, Vol. 36: 1922 (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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