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Public Utilities and Public Health
Author(s) -
Barnard H.E.
Publication year - 2017
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.1551-8833.2017.tb00020.x
Subject(s) - business , public health , social justice , faith , economic justice , profit (economics) , water industry , environmental planning , water supply , political science , engineering , economics , law , medicine , environmental engineering , geography , law and economics , philosophy , nursing , theology , microeconomics
Barnard describes the overarching goal of the water industry as people before profit, and his reference to improved social justice by way of legal protection against injuries caused by drinking polluted water still plays out today. In the end, this article is a good reminder that the water industry is about more than “pushing water through pipes,” that we have always struggled against pollution and to protect public health, and that it is our past success in these efforts that breeds in consumers “a faith that is the greatest asset of the water department.”