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A reservoir in Ops Township, Upper Canada (now Ontario) is destroyed by neighbors who consider it a hazard to health.
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A reservoir in Mercer County, Ohio is destroyed by a mob that considered it a health hazard.
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Attack on a New Hampshire dam that impounded water for factories downstream by local residents unhappy over its effect on water levels.
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General William T. Sherman’s memoirs contain an account of Confederate soldiers poisoning ponds by dumping the carcasses of dead animals into them. Other accounts suggest this tactic was used by both sides.
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Recurrent friction and eventual violent conflict over water rights in the vicinity of Tularosa, New Mexico involving villagers, ranchers, and farmers.
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Dynamiting of a canal reservoir in Paulding County, Ohio by a mob regarding it as a health hazard. State Militia called out to restore order.
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Water may quench your thirst but also kill you due to Cholera, Typhoid Fever, Hepatitis, and Dysentary. Conflicts because local people believed water to be a health hazard.
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City project reserves the flow of the Chicago River
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Sludge process activated in England. Bubbles air through sewage.
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Boston engineers try to convince the authorities that sewage was a public health issue.
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New Catskill aqueduct supplies New York with 500 million gallons of water per day
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Worchester approves the sludge process
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Abel Enslow experiments with chlorine to disinfect water; Sodium Hypochlorate - Chlorax
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Large scale use of sludge processing
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Pipes and storage tank that deliver water at a constant pressure
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Hoover Dam supplies water to Nevada and California
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Delaware aqueduct is 115 miles long with 19 reservoirs and 3 lakes. It provides 580 million gallons of water to New York City per day.
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Diverts the Colorado River to the Mid-west. Cause disputes from 1938 to 1957.
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Kuwait begins desalinization of seawater
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Aswan Dam is built on the Nile River
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Treats waste water by removing nitrates without chemicals. Process mainly used in Africa.
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UCLA-Berkeley uses ultra-violet treatment of water to purify up to 500 million gallons of water per day
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Papers seized during the arrest of a Lebanese Imam at a mosque in Seattle include “instructions on poisoning water sources” from a London-based al Qaeda recruiter. The FBI issued a bulletin to computer security experts around the country indicating that al-Qaeda terrorists may have been studying American dams and water-supply systems in preparation for new attacks.