Water Supply! Clay Fellows Brandon Revlock Kyle Connor Brandon Schneider Chase Petti.

Water Supply!

Clay Fellows Brandon Revlock Kyle Connor Brandon Schneider Chase Petti

Water Meters

-Measures the volume of water for residential and commercial buildings

-Calibrated in cubic ft. or U.S. Gallons on a mechanical or electric meters.

-There are many types of meters for different flow rates and accuracy requirements

Transmission & Distribution of Water

Water is usually stored in major reservoirs.

Water can be distributed by pumps, compressed air, or gravity. (Which would be a water tower)

Usually water is shipped to locations by underground pipes.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_network#Water_distribution_network

Pipe measurements

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Best Water Suppliers

The number 1 supplier in America is the ITT Corporation.

The number 1 supplier in the world is the Veolia Environment.

Local Suppliers

Madison's supplier of water is the Lake County Water Treatment Facility.

Ancient Age

During ancient times water wasn’t as available as it is now. Pit toilets and chamber pots were the only place to go to the bathroom in the ancient times.

Middle Modern Age

In the middle modern age outhouses and Pail closets were use to collect human waists. Also using human waists was very important in china and japan for fertilizer because cow manure was less common.

Aqueducts

The Romans constructed many aqueducts from other water sources to their town which gave them baths, fountains and water to households. Also the Romans sewage was released through complex systems into nearby bodies of water keeping these towns clean. The first Aqueducts in Rome supplied a water fountain. And by third century AD they had eleven aquaducts which provided water to over one million Romans