Development and Present Condition of Sewage Treatment and Utilization in Berlin (Entwicklung und Heutiger Stand der Berliner Abwasserreinigung und Verwertung).

摘要

By mid-Nineteenth Century, though pure water facilities had already been established, the ever-increasing accumulation of sewage, together with a lack of hygiene and high mortality rate caused by typhus and other infectious diseases necessitated the creation of facilities for regulating and disposing of back-water from private households and industrial concerns in the growing Berlin Metropolis. The following is a thorough description of the development of the sewage treatment and utilization system of the City of Berlin. (Author)