Engineering Section RECENT reports of this committee Health officials should support this have discussed important trends essential construction program. which pertain directly or indirectly to More attention is being given to water the quality of public water supplies. resources and to long-range planning as This policy has been continued this to the appropriate use of such resources. year.A Water Resources Division of the The high cost of material and labor American Water Works Association was and the unsettled economic conditions organized this year. There is growing have led to the postponement of many interest in the development of standards improvements to water supply systems Of well construction. State organizaand to an increase of as much as 250 per tions of well drillers are becoming accent in the cost of construction work as tive. It is very evident, therefore, that compared with pre-war conditions. This public health engineers should consider unfortunate situation is resulting in still the role of health departments in the further prolonging the delayed main-licensing of well drillers, the enactment tenance characteristic of the depression of official well codes, etc. There are so period and the subsequent war period. many aspects to this subject that great As a result, many water supply systems care must be exercised in the developare overloaded and are in urgent need ment of state programs so as to avoid of repair and expansion. A survey of inconsistencies and thus retard developwater supply needs by the U. S. Public ments on a nation-wide level. Health Service discloses estimated con-
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