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Publication year - 1963
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1963.tb01139.x
Subject(s) - statement (logic) , water supply , population , agriculture , water development , water resources , economics , agricultural economics , political science , sociology , engineering , geography , law , environmental engineering , archaeology , demography , ecology , biology
In this article, Samuel S. Baxter of the Philadelphia Water Department, comments on the article “Water Supply Economics, Technology, and Policy”, by James C. DeHaven (May 1963 JOURNAL; vol. 55, p. 539). Baxter questions the author's statement that the problem of water supply is becoming relatively more serious and costly in respect to other resources in view of increasing population and enlarging agricultural and industrial demands for water. Baxter fundamentally disagrees with DeHaven's conclusions, which he claims stem from the fact that Dehaven's studies were based on large projects, such as the New York City and California water projects, and doesn't consider the thousands of projects which are undertaken by individual cities, water companies, and districts throughout the country.