MANUAL OF AMERICAN WATER WORKS PRACTICE

The Manual of American Water Works Practice is a most ambitious project to be undertaken by an organization like the American Water Works Association. To summarize in a few hundred pages the essential facts upon which the business of water supply rests and to outline current practice in administering those branches of the business peculiar to it, call for the cooperation of many individuals in order that the book shall be unbiased, comprehensive, well-balanced and authoritative. Fortunately we are not without a notably successful precedent in this undertaking. Some twenty years ago a manual of standard railway engineering practice was started by the American Railway Engineering Association. It has been revised many times since the first edition appeared. There are many standing committees engaged in keeping this volume closely yet conservatively up to date, with the result that it is one of the very few books accepted by federal courts as authorities. We have taken advantage of the experience of our sister association in blocking out the plans for the first edition of our own manual.