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- Wall St. Expects New Year to Go the Way '26 Left Off, Questions Whether Rising Markets Will Dominate Situation, Source: Bulletin, January 1
- Wanted-Water Improvements, Source: Bulletin, October 6
- Want More Water Supply, Lack of Adequate Facilities in Tacony and Holmesburg Cited, Source: Ledger, November 7
- Want More Water Supply, Upper Darby Township Will Complain to Service Commission, Source: Bulletin, August 11
- Want Much Better Water and Sewerage System, Would Cost $120,000,000 and Upward-May Resubmit $52,000,000 Loan, For Election of Solicitor, Part of Automobile License Fees Wanted-Ask Merger of Welfare and Health Bodies, Source: Ledger, November 21
- Wants Higher Water Rate, Councilman Hall Thinks They Are Too Low Here, Source: Bulletin, January 1, 1923
- Warning to Observe Rules Upon Rubbish, Cleaning Streets Made Difficult by Housekeepers' Laxity, Says Caven, Source: North American, no date given
- Warns of Water Famine, Ladner Urges Business Club to Back Anti-Pollution Bill, Source: Bulletin, February 21
- Washington Aqueduct (MD and Washington, DC) -- History / Water-supply -- Washington (DC) / Water-supply -- Virginia
- Waste Reclamation Abandoned by City, Dunlap Says Work, However, May be Undertaken During Summer, Source: Inquirer, January 4, 1921
- Wasting Water, Source: Record, August 17
- Watch the Water Snake, Source: Record, October 22
- Water
- Water Adequacy, Source: Bulletin, August [?], 1926
- Water Agreement Insures Big Supply for Next 100 Years, Mayor's Commission and Other Officials Gratified by Three States' Act, Flow Can Meet All Needs Even in Time of Drought, Source: Ledger, January 27
- Water Agreement Put Up to Senate, Ratification Measure Explains How This State Will Benefit Under Delaware's Allocation, Source: Ledger, February 4
- Water analysis
- Water -- Analysis
- Water -- Analysis
- Water analysis / Sewage analysis
- Water analysis / Water microbiology / Sewage analysis / Sewage microbiology
- Water analysis / Water-supply
- Water and City Health, Source: Inquirer, February 13, 1924
- Water and Coal, Source: Ledger, February 6
- Water-And the Cost of It, Source: Inquirer, October 29
- Water and the Schuylkill River Dam, Source: Inquirer, March 5
- Water An Essential, Source: Bulletin, January 25
- Water Bills Ready for Legislature, Further Evidence at Hearing Shows Little Need of Hasty Action, May Pick New Treasurer, Read's Resignation to Go Before Joint Session in Jersey, Source: Record, July 7
- Water Board Is Ordered to Halt Pollution, 'Clean Schuylkill' Drive Gets New Impetus From Fisher, Appel Attacks Bill, Legislative Probe Preferable to McCrossin Measure, Health Head Says, Source: Record, April 1
- Water Board Plan Best for City, Says Ex-Chief Davis, Former Official Declares Alarming Talk About Filters Without Foundation, Argues Against Supply From River at Yardley, Asserts That Not Cost but Expediency Should Be Controlling Factor, Source: Ledger, June 8, 1924
- Water Board Turns to Upper Delaware, Whispers City Hall, Secret Meeting Held in Swaab's Office; Information is Refused, Rumored New Scheme is Said to Tally With Dunlap Supply Project, Source: Inquirer, August 28
- Water Body's Plan For City Stands, Mayor Announces, Tohickon-Perkiomen Sheds and Lower Delaware River Will Be Supply Sources, Engineers' Full Report to Be Ready by Sept. 15, Swaab Says First Steps to New System, Lasting Fifty Years, Will Cost $100,000,000, Source: Ledger, August 30
- Water borne disease
- Water "Break" Perils Trolley, Three Mains in Different Parts of City Threaten to Flood Cellars of Homes, Source: Daily News, June 23
- Water Break Tears Street, Kensington Householders Awakened by Police When Main Gives Way, Source not known
- Water Bureau Aides Must Pay Income Tax, Revenue Department Puts City Agency on Par With Public Service Corporation, Source: Inquirer, March 5
- Water Bureau Bids Opened, Proposals Include Ash Hauling From Pumping Stations, Source: Ledger, December 7
- Water-Bureau Engineer Ousted; Neglect Charged, Shawmont [Roxborough] Pumping Station Chief Accused of Jeopardizing Supply, Source: Ledger, March 29, 1922
- Water Bureau Head, Source: Bulletin, January 9
- Water Bureau Inefficiency, Source: Record, March 3
- Water Bureau Loses Competent Engineer, John Stanton Ely to Go to Newark for Much Higher Salary, Source: Record, July 15
- Water Bureau Lost Fees Being Checked, City Wide Survey Made to Locate Unreported New Outlets, Source not known
- Water Bureau (p.231)
- Water-Bureau Pay Starts a Dispute, Councilman Hall Says "Soft Snaps" Are Provided for Those "in Right" Source: Ledger, February 13, 1922
- Water Bureau "Profits," Case Where Proprietor and Customer Are One and Same, but People Satisfied With Low Taxes, Source: Ledger, no date given
- Water Bureau Reports Big Profit for Year, Turned Over $6,450,000 to City, $500,000 More Than Controller's Estimate, Many Get Service Free, Despite This and Low Rates, Water Works Are Run at Fine Profit, Source: Record, no date given
- Water Bureau Revenue, Source: Bulletin, April 19, 1926
- Water Bureau Shake-Up, Source: Ledger, March 15, 2004
- Water Bureau "Snaps" Cut Out by Murdock, Has Council Lop Off 193 Positions at a Saving of $112,744 a Year in Payroll, Street Cleaning Jump, Salary Increases in Survey Bureau Urged-Changes in Bureau of City Property, Source: Record, November 20
- Water Bureau Wins Baseball Honors, Defeats Sheriff's Office at Phillies' Park by Score of 11 to 6, Nolan Proves Star, Source: North American, August 16
- Water CAP
- Water chemistry / Crystals / Water -- Philosophy / Crystals -- Pictorial works
- Water Chief Dead, Fred C. Dunlap, Water Bureau Head, Dies of Pneumonia, Death Comes Suddenly From Cold Contracted Two Weeks Ago, Official Deposed by Kendrick, Was Reappointed by Mayor Mackey, Source: Inquirer, January 26, 1928
- Water Chief Speeds Back to Hospital Here After Health Trip to Florida, Source: Ledger, March 27
- Water Co. Asks For a Valuation, Source: Ledger, March 19
- Water Co. Carries Out P.S.C. Order, Myerstown Group Satisfied With Adequate Service for Home and Fire Use, Source: Ledger, May 16
- Water Commission Combines 2 Plans in Supply Report, Both Upper Delaware and Tohickon Perkiomen Sheds Included, Revision of Scheme Said to Have Been Dictated by Mayor Kendrick, Source: Inquirer, August 29
- Water Commission Has a Long Session, Chairman Biles Says Proceedings Would Not Interest the Public, To Report in 90 Days, Source: North American, February 26
- Water Commission Members Not Paid, Mayor Believed Holding Back Checks Until Given More Data on Supply Report; Kendrick Expresses Dissatisfaction With Recommendations, Source: Inquirer, August 8, 1924
- Water Commission Naming is Delayed, Mayor Kendrick Wishes to Hear Advocates of the Delaware, Immense Problem, Source: North American, January [8]
- Water Commission Report Pickled in Council Committee, No Prospect That It Will Ever Be Brought to Light, Advocates Grow Weary, Source: North American, October 4, 1924
- Water Commission Silent on Report, Mayor and Members Decline to Talk After Protracted City Hall Session, Hall Says Land Speculators in Area Suggested Won't "Milk Taxpayers", Source: Inquirer, May 14
- Water Commission Survey Fails to Satisfy Kendrick, Hazen Says Situation is Due to "Physical Reasons Beyond Our Control", Matter Shelved Since Report Made in Summer, J. Waldo Smith Asserts He Knows of No Other Source Than That Recommended, Source: Ledger, December 20
- Water Commission To Be Heard Today, Source: Record, June 6
- Water Commission to Give Full Data at Mayor's Demand, Detailed Report of New Supply System Promised Next Month, Kendrick Tells Members Information is Necessary in Framing Loan Bill, Source: Inquirer, August [?]
- Water Commission Will Report Soon, $70,000,000 Project Embracing Perkiomen and Tohickon Creeks Favored, Source: North American, May 13
- Water Compact Near Goal, State Chamber and Waterways Commission End Series of Meetings, Source: Ledger, December 30
- Water Compact Under Acid Test in Jersey Senate, Report is Received and Public Hearing Set for February 28, Paving Bill Battle Opens, Source: Record, February 16
- Water Company Merger Banned by Service Board, [?]ees No Advantage in Tying Up Separated Concerns, Source: Ledger, September 14
- Water Company Mergers Are Declared Beneficial, Source: Ledger, October 20
- Water Company Ordered to File Tariff Supplement, Source: Ledger, December 30
- Water Company Providing for Growth in Suburban Population, Philadelphia-Suburban Concern Has Spent $3,000,000 in Last Year for Improvements and Extensions, Source: Ledger, April 10
- Water Company Valuation Stands as Rate Basis, Supreme Court Sustains Figures Fixed by Utility Board, Source: Record, November 16
- Water Complaints Cease, Chief Murdoch Announces City's Service is in "Perfect Tune," Source: Ledger, July 28
- Water Complaints Cease, Chief Murdoch Announces City's Service is in "Perfect Tune," Source: Ledger, July 28 (exact same article as the one in 2004.012.0275)
- Water Conservation in Southern New Jersey, Source: Inquirer, March 4
- Water Conservation is Convention Topic, Public Education on Supply Needed, Association President Asserts, Source: Inquirer, May 19
- Water Conservation, Source: Bulletin, November 2
- Water Conservation, Source: Record, June 24
- Water Consumption Jumps, 117,000,000 Gallons Above Normal Used Daily During Hot Wave Here, Source: Ledger, June 7
- Water Contract Signed, Outside Concern to Supply House of Correction and Other Institutions, Source: Ledger, July 24
- Water Development Restrictions Made in Tri-State Pact, Interior Streams May Be Developed, But Total is Limited, Permits Storage Dams, Source: North American, January 28
- Water Dismissals Rouse Councilmen, Crossan and Daly See Kendrick and Biles in Hunt for "satisfaction," Dunlap Assails Firing, Source: Bulletin, March 15
- Water Distribution / Water-pipes
- Water Engineers Want More Meters, Experts Agree This IS Way TO Check Waste and Raise Funds for New System, Advise Northeast C. of C., Source: [Inquirer], April 1
- Water Experts Pare Estimates to $75,000,000, High Pressure Tunnel Dropped by Commission in Final Report Made to Mayor, Alternative Recommendations to Go to Council Today; Former Chief Davis Suggested for Job, Source: Inquirer, September 18
- Water Famine Faces Residents in W. Torresdale, Source: Record, March 14
- Water Famine Follows Orthodox St. Main Break, Area Between Large St. and Adams Ave. Roped Off Two Hours, Source: Ledger, July 2
- Water Famine, Source: [Daily News], April 8
- Water Famine Threatens City Swaab Asserts, Mayor's Engineer Says Immediate Steps Are Necessary to Avert Disaster, Meterage Urged as Means of Conserving Supply Until Extension Plans Can Be Put Into Effect, Source: Inquirer, October 14
- Water-Famine Victims to Debate Relief Plans, Source: Ledger, March 3
- Water for Oak Lane, Service Body Approves Plan for City to Buy Suburban Company, Source: Ledger, June 5
- Water for Philadelphia, Source: Providence Journal, no date given
- Water for the Future, Source: Ledger, January 16
- Water for The Northeast, Source: Ledger, November 12
- Water for the Northeast, Source: Ledger, November 26, 1922
- Water Improving, Gadsden Declares, C. of C. Head Asserts Purity of Delaware River Is Increasing, Puts Swaab on Committee, Source: Ledger, May 21
- Water Inadequate Tacony Complains, Delegation Sees Mayor and Director Caven; Some Relief Promised, Held Up in Council, Source: North American, [December?] 2, 1920
- Water Income Assessed, Source: Inquirer, November 19
- Water Inspection Finds Creeks Dry, Mayor, Councilmen and Engineers, Seeking Moisture Choke on Dust, $91,500,000 Plan Hurt, Members of Party Argue Over Sites, With All Details Unsettled, Mayor Calls Conference, All Parties Will Meet Friday to Decide on Some Program for City to Follow, Source: Record, October 29
- Water Leak Undermines Foundation of Street, Source: Record, August 1
- Water Line Breaks in Chestnut Hill, Supply of Part of Germantown Also Cut Off by Flood at Hartwell Lane, [?] Burst in Year, Source: Bulletin, December 19
- Water Lines Break in Germantown, Streets Flooded and Supply is Cut Off From Two Sections, Source: Ledger, April 19
- Water Links Under Way, West Philadelphia High Pressure Service Nearing Completion, Source: Inquirer, August 25
- Water Main Bids Opened, Source: Inquirer, August 27
- Water Main Blast Blocks Traffic, Woman's Quick Action Prevents Serious Damage in Break at 15th and Mt. Vernon, Warns City of "Geyser," Source: Ledger, July 12
- Water Main Blast Tears Hole at 5th and Spruce, Leaves Cavity 15 Feet Long-Many Residents Are Awakened, Source: Bulletin, August 1
- Water Main Break at 4th and Jefferson Floods 3 Blocks, Gravel Hurled Against Third-Story Windows and Many Cellars Filled as Stream Sweeps to Girard Ave., Large Section Undermined; Trolley Cars Re-Routed, Source: Bulletin, October 18
- Water Main Break at Broad and Wood Hurls Paving in Air, Motorist Narrowly Escapes Shower of Stone as Torrent Floods Elks' Club, New Subway, Prepared for Mishap, Suffers Little, Source: Bulletin, [July]
- Water Main Break Causes Big Damage, Cellars Near Broad and Girard Ave. are Flooded, Motors Marooned and Street Torn Up, Hotel's Lights Put Out, Source: Bulletin, December 11, 1925
- Water-Main Break Cuts Off Germantown Supply, Engineers Search Many Hours Before Finding Cause of Trouble, Source: Ledger, November 20
- Water Main Break Cuts Off Overbrook Homes, Source: North American, May 24
- Water Main Break Floods 5th St. at Girard Ave., Motorist Stalled and Drenched-Residents Without Water Supply, Source: Bulletin, June 6
- Water Main Break Floods Streets, Geyser Spouts Fifty Feet as Truck Crushes Manhole at Mascher and Gurney, Onlookers Are Showered, Source: Ledger, October 24
- Water Main Break Hits Manayunk, Feed Pipe From Schuylkill Into Shawmont [Roxborough] Pumping Station Also Cracks, R.R. Tracks Are Flooded, Source not known, October 5
- Water Main Break on 7th St., Tenth in City Since January 1, Source: Bulletin, September 3, 1926
- Water Main Breaks
- Water Main Breaks, Broken Pipe at 17th and Wolf Sts. Sends Flow Over Street, Source: Bulletin, December 31
- Water Main Breaks, Four Working at Excavation Seemed to Enjoy Drenching, Source: Inquirer, July 14
- Water Main Breaks, Germantown Cellars Flooded and Pavement is Undermined, Source: Ledger, July 13
- Water Main Breaks, Northeast Without Water for Several Hours Yesterday, Source: Inquirer, October 15
- Water Main Breaks Nothing New, Says Ex-Bureau Chief, Source: Daily News, September 8
- Water Main Breaks, Overbrook Section Without Water at Breakfast Time, Source: Bulletin, [May] 5
- Water Main Breaks, Paving Blocks Sink at 11th and Wolf Streets, Source: Bulletin, November 21
- Water Main Breaks, Pipes Part at 23rd Street and Allegheny Avenue, Flood Vicinity, Source: Inquirer, February 19
- Water Main Breaks, Routs 2 Families, Traffic Delayed After Hole is Torn in Street at Frankford and Erie Avs., Store Cellars Flooded, Source: Bulletin, June 5
- Water Main Breaks, Trolley Car Has Narrow Escape From Plunging in Hole, Source: Inquirer, April 21, 1921
- Water-Main Break Ties Up Market St., Rotted Pipe Fails at 9th, Flooding Block-Six Feet of Paving Sinks, Area Roped Off All Night, Source: Ledger, June 9
- Water Main Bursting Causes Road Cave-in, Source not known
- Water Main Bursts, Cellars Flooded and Streets Covered Several Inches Deep, Source: Inquirer, July 30
- Water Main Bursts, Locust and 46th Street Zone is Flooded-Asphalt Pushed Up, Source: Ledger, November 3
- Water Main Bursts, Main Line Residents Cut Off From Aqua Pura Supply, Source: Inquirer, October 28
- Water Main Bursts, Nicetown Residents Carry Buckets for Breakfast Needs, Source: Bulletin, no date given
- Water Main Bursts, Source: Ledger, May 2, 1922
- Water Main Geyser Floods House at 26th and Ridge, Stream Spurts Three-Stories High from Broken Pipe, Source: Bulletin, April 16
- Water-Main Geyser Halts Traffic, Floods Subway, Hundreds Witness "Deluge" When Pipe Breaks in Penn Square, Source: Ledger, September 11
- Water Main Leak Held Big Menace, Park Ave. and Dauphin St. Residents Declare Resultant Ice Endangers Traffic, P.R.T. Uses Tons of Salt, Source: Evening [Paper], January 13
- Water Main Leaks Bared by Survey, Daily Wastage of 6,000,000 Gallons Halted, Chief Murdoch Reports, Repair 2500 Bad Valves, Source: Ledger, July 2
- Water Main Leaks Found in W. Phila. Survey to Trace 5,000,000 Gallon Daily Waste Reveals 40th and Market Break, Each Block is Tested, Source: Bulletin, February 12
- Water Main Rips; Flooded Cellars Cause Heavy Loss, Damage Resulting From Break at 7th and Race Streets Put at $100,000, Many Buildings Damaged as Deluge Fills Streets, Paving Raised to Level of Curb as Main Spouts 10-Foot Geyser, Source: Ledger, September 3
- Water Mains Are Repaired, Northeast Section's Supply Renewed After Three Breaks, Source: Ledger, July 15
- Water Mains Convey Wanamaker Music, Inspectors Heard Music Clearly by Putting 'Aqua-phone' on Pipes, Source: North American, December 20
- Water Mains to Be Extended, Source: Ledger, November 25
- Water Men Ouster Defended By Biles, Bureau Chief Says Aides Were Discharged Because of Incompetency, Mayor Indorses Action, Source: Ledger, March 15
- Water Merger Unopposed, Phila. To Sell Girard Company in Schuylkill County, Source not known, April 17
- Water Meter Act Finds No Sponsor, Mayor, Murdoch and Connell All Deny Sponsoring Measure, Source: Record, April 28
- Water Meter Bill Faces Long Delay, Sponsor is Disclosed as Company Formed to Manufacture Appliances, Hall Not Pushing It, Source: Bulletin, June 25
- Water-Meter Bill Faces Long Quiz, Biles to Analyze Ordinance While Council Defers All Action, Sponsors Defend Plan, Source: Ledger, May [23]
- Water Meter For Home Brewer is The Latest, Chief Davis Asserts That Law Requires All Distilleries to Have One, Source: Inquirer, July, 22
- Water Metering Hung Up, Source: Bulletin, no date given
- Water Metering Means Saving, Source: Bulletin, May 15, 1925
- Water Meter Plan Blamed for Waste, Universal System Urged as Only Way to Stop Big Increase in Consumption, Much of Trouble Laid to Leaks; Many Complaints Are Received, Source: Inquirer, September 28
- Water-meters
- Water Meters For All Homes Ordered in Bill, Measure Sent to Council by Hall to Put Stop to Waste, Householders Bear Cost of New Device, Installments Will Be Added to Bills Every Three Months for Five Years, City Expected to Pay For Extra Piping Necessary, Bill Sponsored by Chamber of Commerce Goes to Public Works Committee, Source: Ledger, May 20
- Water Meters, Source: Bulletin, November 19
- Water Meters, Source: Ledger, April 28
- Water Meters? Source: Ledger, November 20
- Water -- Microbiology
- Water Officials Facing Shake-Up, Observers Predict Mayor Will Act When He Gets Ledoux Report, Expert Rushes Probe, Source: Bulletin, March [5]
- Water on Street Freezes, Break at 5th and Jackson Results in Pond of Slush and Ice, Source: Ledger, January 4
- Water Pact Change to Aid City Urged, Dunlap Advocates Steps to Insure Adequate Supply for Next Fifty Years, Endorsement of Treaty by New Jersey Advisory Engineer is Assailed, Source: Inquirer, February 28
- Water Pact Doomed, Tri-State Treaty Dead for Session as Far as Penna. Is Concerned, Source: Ledger, March 29
- Water Pact Hits New Jersey Snag, Move to Shelve Tri-State Project for Year Seen in Request for Special Commission, Would Study State Need, Source: Bulletin, March 4
- Water Pact Veto Spurned in Jersey, Senate Repasses Resolution for Commission to Study Plan, Governor Also Disapproves Bill for Preliminary Work on Burlington Bridge, Source: Inquirer, March 20
- Water Pays Profit, Controller Says Hall Probably Lacks Full Data in Alleging Loss, Mayor Silent on Dispute, Source: Bulletin, November 23
- Water Pipe, 100 Years Old, Still in Service, Piece of Iron Main Dug Up on Exhibit in Office of Chief Davis, Source: North American, March 8, 1921
- Water-Pipe Bids Opened, Lines Costing $75,000 for Streets That Are to Be Repaved, Source: Ledger, August 12
- Water Pipe Break Endangers Traffic, Ice and Slush on Columbia Ave., Near 7th St. Imperil Many, Source: Bulletin, December 3
- Water Pipe of Paper Invented in France, Source: North American, September 8
- Water Pipe, p.54
- Water Pipe Rivals Save Cash for City, Bidders on One Job Ask $40,000 Less When Director Ends 20-Year Monopoly, Competition Now Prevails, Source: Ledger, August 22
- Water Plan Cost Set at $50,000,000 Over First Figure, Dunlap Says Hall Project Will Involve $150,000,000 to Remedy Defects of System and Bring Adequate Supply to Entire City; Promises to Tell True Situation to Council Committee, Former Bureau Chief Accepts Invitation to Give Views at Public Hearing; Says Proposition Would Leave Large Section Unrelieved of Polluted Sewage for Drinking Purposes, Source: Inquirer, May 31
- Water Plan Criticisms, Intimation of Land Speculation by Financial Interests Withdrawn by Board of Trade Committee, Source: Ledger, October 27
- Water Plans Delay Scored as Culpable, Real Estate Board Publication Insists on Speeded Action, Source: North American, March 2
- Water Plans Favored, Public Service Board for City Purchase in Northeast, Source: Inquirer, [?] 26
- Water Plans Get Under Way Soon, Biles Will Ask $2,000,000 of Fund Left from Old Loan to Speed Work, Repair Filter Beds, Source: Bulletin, May 27
- Water Plans Hit by Lack of Funds, Improvements May Have to Be Curtailed Unless Emergency Loan is Floated, Contract Awarded Will Double Supply to West Philadelphia Consumers, Source: Inquirer, July 1
- Water-Plant Test Begun by Ledoux, Expert Visits Shawmont and Roxborough and Examines Equipment, Silent on What He Found, Source: Ledger, March 5
- Water pollution
- Water Pollution Control Federation -- History / Environmental protection -- History -- 20th century
- Water Pollution in Penna. Assailed, Grover C. Ladner Tells Association Condition of Streams Is 'Simply Scandalous', Advocates Change in Law, Source: Ledger, October 21
- Water Pollution Theme of Experts, Modern Filtration Methods Now Vital, Say Convention Delegates, Chlorination Process Highly Successful, Asserts Virginia Speaker, Source: Inquirer, May 12, 1922
- Water Pollution / Water Pollution -- Great Britain / Sewage disposal in rivers, lakes, etc. -- Great Britain
- Waterpower Doubles Under New Federal Act, Greatest Development in History of Country Reported in Last Five Years, Source: Inquirer, November 23
- Water-power -- Economic aspects -- United States -- History / Water rights -- United States -- History / Industries -- Power supply -- United States -- History
- Water-power -- Economic aspects -- United States -- History/ Water rights -- United States -- History / Industries -- Power supply -- United States -- History
- Water-power -- Economic aspects -- United States -- History/ Water rights -- United States -- History / Power transmission -- History / United States -- Industries -- History
- Water-Power Idea Urged on Grange, Master, at Convention, Recommends State Build Dams and Lease Electricity, Chaplain Flays Lax Drys, Source: Ledger, November 13
- Water-Power Policy Rather Than Steam, Purpose of Toronto Commission, New Chairman Tells Engineers, Source: Ledger, November 20
- Water Pressure Better, Will Return to Normal by Monday, Bureau Chief Says, Source: [North American] [February]
- Water Pressure Increased, Germantown Notified to See Plumbing is in Good Shape, Source not known
- Water Pressure Increased, Germantown Notified to See Plumbing is in Good Shape, Source not know, October 9 (same article as the one in 2004.012.0281)
- Water Pressure Low, Bureau Says it is Due to Children Turning on Plugs, Source: Bulletin, July 16
- Water Probe Rumor Worries City Hall, Possibility of Grand Jury Investigation of System Next Month Reported, Administration Circles Fear Flareback as in Street Paving Matter, Source: Inquirer, April 28
- Water Problem Becoming Serious, Growth of City Threatened Unless Plant is Enlarged, Chief Davis Declares, Source: Ledger, October 14
- Water Problem Discussed, Chamber of Commerce Committee Considers Experts' Report on Supply, Source: Ledger, [October 22]
- Water Problems, Source: Ledger, October 16, 1922
- Water Project Approved, Collingswood Votes Unanimously in Favor of Purchase of Plant, Source: Ledger, December 13
- Water Proposal Offered, $200,000 for Improvement Proposed by Public Works Department, Source: Ledger, December 2
- Water Protection, Source: Ledger, April 11
- Water purification
- Water -- Purification
- Water Purification -- United States / Water quality / Water-supply -- United States
- Water--Purification / Water-supply
- Water Quality 123
- Water Quality 19-20
- Water rates
- Water Rates
- Water Rates (p. 231)
- Water rates, Sewer rates
- Water Rates, Sewer Rates
- Water rates, Sewer rates, Metering
- Water Rates, Source: Ledger, October 20
- Water Rents
- Water Repair Bids Opened by Biles, Contracts for Motor-Driven Pumps at Two Stations to Be Awarded, Money to Come From Loan, Source: Ledger, March 16
- Water Repairs Near Completion, Modernization of Pumping Stations That Caused Famine Well Under Way, New Plants Nearly Ready, Source: Ledger, April 14
- Water Report Said to Attack Policy, Ledoux Completes Findings; Believed He Attributes Shawmont [Roxborough] Break to Officials' Negligence, Public Meeting Possible, Source: Ledger, March 10
- Water Report's Critics, Source: Ledger, May 29
- Water Reserves Near Danger Point Murdoch Admits, Amount Pumped SO Low That Break in Plant Would Cause Drought in District, Crossan and Daly Ask 'Showdown' in Situation, Improvements Now Under Way Will Avert Danger of Shortage, Biles Says, Source: Ledger, March 2
- Water resources development--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Water Rights, Source: Bulletin, November 20
- Water Row Stirs Oak Lane Section, Department Disputes Residents' Assertion of No Supply Since Friday, Says Break is Remedied, Source: Ledger, September 13
- Water Runs Low as City Sizzles On Its Hottest August 3 on Record, Homes Near Rittenhouse Square Cut Off, Due to Running of Fire Hydrants-Low Pressure in Other Districts-Mercury Hits 96 Degrees, Source: Ledger, August 4, 1926
- Water Safe to Drink, Source: Ledger, February 13, 1923
- Water Shortage Affects Thousands of Families, Broken Valve in Roxborough Leaves Many Homes 'Dry', Source: Bulletin, January 30
- Water Shortage Alarms Roxborough Residents, Bureau Hunts in Vain for Cause of Low Pressure; May Be Ice Jam, Source: Ledger, January 30
- Water Shortage Alarms W. Phila., Residents Protest as Faucets Go Dry; Low Pressure General Throughout City, Drive on Street Bathers, Source: Ledger, July 11, 1926
- Water Shortage Blamed For Fire, Priest Says Destruction of Germantown Rectory Could Have Been Avoided, Raps Laxity of City, Father Nevin, Rescued With Others, Blames Poor "Plug" and Alarm System, Source: Record, September 17
- Water Shortage Blamed on Waste, Bureau Chief Says Opening of Fireplugs Makes Pressure Fall in South Phila., Source: Ledger, August 11
- Water Shortage Evokes Protest, Supply Again Cut Off While Fox Chase Folk Are Numbering Complaints, Crossan Promises Relief, Source: Ledger, July 9
- Water Shortage Feared by Davis, West Philadelphia Supply Endangered This Summer, Bureau Chief Warns, Belmont at Capacity, Tells Residents and Manufacturers to Be as Sparing as Possible, Source: Ledger, June 18, 1922
- Water Shortage Hits City With Heat 100 Again, Police Forced to Shut Off Cooling Showers for Children as precaution Against Fire, Many Homes Without Supply, Thousands Jam Parks as Mercury Climbs; Much Cooler Weather is Predicted Today, All Records Broken for July 22-Mills Shut Down-Four Die at Baltimore-Score Prostrated Here-Entire Atlantic Seaboard Suffering, Source: Ledger, July 22, 1926
- Water Shortage Laid to Poor Coal, Many Sections of City Hit When Low Pressure Leaves Homes Almost Dry, Relief Promised Today, Source: Ledger, February 4
- Water Shortage Reported Relieved, Officials Say Pressure is Higher, But West Phila. People Declare It Worse, Baths Are Turned Off, Source: Bulletin, July 23
- Water Shortage Ruins State Crops, Worst Drought in Years Eating Up Fields, Source: Ledger, October 6
- Water Shortage Stirs Complaints, Opening of Fireplugs Blamed by Hayes for Slackening of Supply, Source: Ledger, July 21
- Water Situation Upstate is Grave as Wells Dry U[p], Exhaustion Nears Because of Extensive Pumping in Pottsville Region, Source: North American, November 29
- Water Source Grab Charged to Gotham, Phila. Warned to Get Metropolitan Commission Named Now Through Legislature, Seizure of Most of Delaware Headwaters Is Feared by Engineer, Source: Inquirer, January 27
- Water, Source: Ledger, April 16
- Water, Source: Ledger, October 30, 1924
- Water Source Project Delay Held Perilous, Five Experts Agree Extreme Danger to City Supply Lies in In-action, Perkiomen-Tohickon Basin-Lower Delaware Recommendation of Mayor's Commission Assailed, Source: Inquirer, January 17
- Water, Source: Record, June 29
- Water Sources Inspected to Speed Decision, Mayor Tells Big Party That Task Facing City Will Take Six Years, Engineers and Officials Examine Various Streams, While a Definite Program is Sought, Metering System Will Be Extended, Conference Coming Friday, Engineers Urge Councilmen to Accept Perkiomen-Tohickon Project, Source: Ledger, October 29
- Water Spouts 20 Feet, Main Breaks at Marshall and Noble Sts.-Paving Stones Sink, Source: Bulletin, July 4
- Water Spouts 35 Feet, Landslide Smashes Main Near Columbus Monument in Park, Source: Ledger, October 20
- Water Stoppage Puzzles, Inspectors Search in Vain for Cause of West Phila. Shortage, Source: Ledger, August 28
- Water Storage 15
- Water Storage Needed, Source: Bulletin, January 23
- Water supply
- Water-supply
- Water Supply
- Water Supply and Filtration (p. 235)
- Water Supply Body, Source: North American, February 12
- Water Supply Check-Up, Source: Ledger, no date given
- Water Supply Contract to Be Awarded Soon, McHugh Brothers Bid Low on Important Work in Northeast, Source: Record, August 7
- Water Supply Cut Off, Break in Pipe Floods Cellars Near Fifth and South Streets, Source: Inquirer, February 21, 1921
- Water Supply Dam on the Upper Delaware, Source: Record, February 10
- Water Supply Data Still Lacking, Source: Inquirer, June 19, 1924
- Water-supply engineering
- Water -- Supply engineering
- Water-supply engineering / Hydraulic engineering
- Water-supply engineering / Water Purification
- Water Supply Fundamentals, Source: Record, November 13
- Water Supply Hearings, Source: Bulletin, June 4, 1924
- Water Supply in the School, There Ought to Be Plenty if the Children Are to Be Comfortable, Source: Record, November 17
- Water Supply Issue, Massmeeting Called at Fox Chase After Many Complaints, Source: Inquirer, July 8
- Water-supply--Kentucky--Louisville.
- Water-supply--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Water Supply Plan Enters Final Stage, Commission Discusses Proposed Perkiomen-Schuylkill-Delaware Combination, Recommendations and Report to Mayor Expected After Session Tomorrow, Source: Inquirer, [May] 19
- Water-Supply Plans, Source: Ledger, December 20
- Water Supply pp. 50 - 54
- Water Supply Problem is Acute, Source: Daily News, February 10
- Water-supply, Rural / Water-supply engineering
- Water-supply / Water purification
- Water-supply / Water Purification / Water Softening / Water Analysis
- Water Supply Weakened, Officials Blame Soft Coal for Temporary Lack of Steam, Source not known, February 4, 1926
- Water Survey Asked, Chamber of Commerce Wants Tri-State Compact Studied, Source: Inquirer, January 20
- Water Survey Ordered, Attention of State Engineers Will Center on Delaware, Lehigh and Schuylkill, Source: Inquirer, March 16, 2004
- Water System for 10,000,000 Planned, Commission Tells Mayor Report Will Be Made in 90 Days, Start Work Monday, Water Pure; Only Taste is Bad, Source: North American, February 22
- Water System for Northeast Phila. Is Planned By Bureau, Council Will Be Asked to Provide $2,000,000 for Project, Big Need Felt, Source: North American, June 10, 1922
- Water System Gets Aid, Source: Ledger, September 7
- Water Systems Discussed, S.M. Van Loan, of Philadelphia Department, Delivers Address, Source: Ledger, December 18
- Water Systems in Penna. Praised, Shore Convention Told This State Leads Country to Filtration Plants, Factory Waste Menace, Source: Ledger, October 31
- Water System's Needs, Source: Bulletin, July 29
- Water Tank Break Does Damage, Source: Inquirer, August 6
- Water to Be Rid Of Gas Shortly, Source: Record, April 5
- Water to Cost $400,000, Public Work Department Opens Proposals for Improving System, Source: Ledger, July 2, 1926
- Water Tower Operated, Mayor Sees Demonstration of New Fire-Fighting Apparatus, Source: Inquirer, August 7
- Water-Tower Takes Fire, Firemen Have Hard Time Getting Hose Lines Up, Source: Ledger, March 18
- Water Treaty Giving 3 States Supply Signed, Phila. To Be Big Gainer by Agreement Reached by Delaware River Commission, Jersey's Troubles Also to End; Power Development Projects Will Not Be Interfered With, Source: Inquirer, January 26
- Water Troubles Blamed on Public, 80 Per Cent of Complaints Turn Out to Be Householders' Fault, Says Murdoch, Minimizes Main Breaks, Source: Ledger, July 29, 1926
- Water Turbines Testing
- Water Undermines Walls, Storm and Pipe Break Make Trouble in Annex Excavation, Source: Bulletin, September 7, 1926
- Water Use in Hot Spell Up 117,000,000 Gallons, Chief Murdoch Explains Ban on Hydrant Shower Baths, Source: Ledger, June 6
- Water Vent Holds Boy Prisoner 20 Minutes, Child, 3, Has Foot Caught on Way to Buy Candy; Provoked by Delay, Source: Inquirer, April 16
- Water [Walter?] Diamond Chief of Shawmont [Roxborough] Station, Stood Second in List After Recent Civil Service Examination, Source: Inquirer, May 5
- Water Wastage Attacked, Research Bureau Says Amount Used Would Supply a Larger City, Source: Ledger, November 19
- Water waste
- Water Waste, Source: Ledger, November 22, 1924
- Water Waste, Source: Record, march 2
- Water! Water! but-West Phila. Residents Hit by Broken Street Main, Source: Daily News, April 20
- Water, Water Everywhere, But - Source: Bulletin, December 13
- Water We Drink, Some Facts About Our Water Supply and Its Underground Ways, Source: Bulletin, August 15
- Water-wheels -- History
- Water When Wells Run Dry, Source: Bulletin, November 25
- Water Works Bids In, Improvement to System Will Cost About $326,000, Source: Ledger, March 29, 1922
- Water Works, London, England
- Waterworks Pay Hadley Repeats, Controller Insists Statement Is Correct, Despite Retort of Charles B. Hall, Latter Hints at Reply, Source: Ledger, November 24
- Water Works--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Water Works pp. 50 - 54
- Waterworks Society [?] Convention Here, Phases of Supplying Big Cities Discussed-Apparatus is Shown, Source: Public Ledger, May 16, 1922
- Waterworks Thrive, Extensive Building Calls for Extensions of All Facilities, Source: Inquirer, November 11
- Way Found to End Stream Pollution, State's Plan Declared by Engineers to Be Best Ever Put Forth, Divided Into 3 Classes, Source: Ledger, October 17
- W. Chester Water Rate Up, Council Boosts Charge Ten Per Cent, First Time Since 1895, Source: Bulletin, March 14
- Weather Conditions 20
- Webster to Quit As Survey Chief, Resignation Expected Soon and J.M. Nobre May Get Old Job, Sproul Refuses to Accept Responsibility of Approving Expenditures on Bridge, Source: Inquirer, November 27, 1920
- Webster to Quit Survey Bureau, Will Become Directing Engineer of the Joint Bridge Commission, Once Dock Dept. Head, $100,000 Budget Submitted by Engineers for Commission's Approval, Source: Ledger, November 27, 192[?]
- Weglein Lauds City Water Plan, Council President Declares There Can Be No Monopoly of Glory in the Program, $100,000 For Survey, Source: Ledger, April 15
- Wernwag Bridge
- West Germantown is Without Water When Main Bursts, Pipe From Roxborough Breaks; Repairs Found Difficult, Source: North American, December 12
- West Manayunk Gets Water Mains, New System Will Replace Cistern and Pump in Isolated Section of Lower Merion, Better Fire Protection, Source: Bulletin, January 24
- Westmoreland Street Water Main Breaks, Cellars Are Flooded and Streets Turned Into Small Rivers, Source: Inquirer, January 12
- West Oak Lane 13,
- West Phila. Area Goes 'Waterless', Shortage Affects Four-Block Section as Repairmen Search for Main Break, Apartments Hardest Hit, Source: Ledger, August 27
- West Philadelphia
- West Philadelphia Faces Water Peril, Source of Schuylkill's "Carbolic Cocktails" Is Uncovered, State and City Officials to Decide Action to End Deadly Pollution, Source: Inquirer, March 12, 2004
- West Philadelphia Landscape Project
- West Philadelphia Water Causes Run on Drug Stores, Odor for Last Few Days So Objectionable Residents Are Unable to Drink It, Source: Ledger, January 12, 1924
- West Philadelphia Water Works
- West Phila. To Get Good Service, Source: Inquirer, June 16
- West Phila. Water Supply Doubled, Thirty Filter Beds Added to Equipment at Belmont Station, Shortage Fears Are Ended, Source: Ledger, July 30
- West Phila. Without Water at Supper Hour, Blockade Gate Slips in Main Duct; Repairs Hurriedly Made, Source: Inquirer, May 15
- Wharton Tract, Again Becomes a Live Issue for New Jersey People, Source: Bulletin, June 24
- What of Philadelphia's Water Supply? Source: Inquirer, September 13, 1923
- What Philadelphia is Doing! Source: Record, June 28
- What Price Perkiomen Pasture? Source: Bulletin, November 8
- What's Behind This Tri-State Water Treaty? Source: Inquirer, February 22, 1925
- What Water Remedy? Local Authorities Should Follow Example of New York and Seek Pure Source for City's Supply, Source: Ledger, February 17
- When a City's Not a City, Source: Bulletin, March 6
- While the Getting is Good, Source: Record, June [?]
- Who Was the Jackass? Source: Record, March 26
- Why is This? Source: Ledger, June 5, 1928
- Why Not a Water District? Source: Bulletin, July 30, 1924
- Why Should the State Protect Pollution of the Schuylkill? Source: Record, June 4, 1928
- Why Waste $100,000,000? Source: Record, December 20
- Why Water Pipes Break, Source: Record, August 3
- Will Compile Data on Water Supply, Bureau Engineers to Prepare Report on Upper Delaware Project, Surveys Are Made, Source not known
- Will Gauge Water Waste, Director Biles Gets Bid of $63,650 for Survey With Pitometer, Source: Bulletin, November 9
- William Mifflin
- Will Jersey Refuse? Source: Bulletin, March 19
- Will Make Close Survey of Schuylkill River, City Joins State in Effort to Improve Sanitary Conditions, Source: Record, July 13
- Wire Bridge
- Wissahickon, Schuylkill
- With Hooch Not Permitted How About Water? Besides Being Fit to Drink It Should Have Certain Qualities for Industrial Purposes of Various Sorts-Interesting Points as to City's Present Supply and Its Effects on Health, Source: Record, June 15, 1924
- With Only Half of West Philadelphia Surveyed, 2,500,000-Gallon Wastage is Stopped, House Owners Pay Costs, Source: Ledger, no date given
- With Woodruff, No Decision Reached, Commission Confined Work to Discussion of Expenditure of $500,000, Source not known
- Woman Rescued in Flooded Cellar, Almost Drowns, Imprisoned by Falling Trunk, When Main Bursts on 60th St., Homes Are Inundated, Source: Bulletin, July 25
- Women Clash Over Women For City Hall Vacancies, Whether They Should Demand Places of Dismissed Men is Debated, Source: North American, December 31, 1920
- Women in Water Fight, Call for Better Supply in and Near East Germantown, Source: Ledger, no date given
- Women Protest Water Conditions, Phila. Republican Branch Demands Action Be Taken to Remedy Situation, Source: Ledger, March 1
- Workmen in Subway Flee as Main Breaks, Steam Shovels, Trucks and Other Material Submerged in South Broad St. Flood, Source: Inquirer, December 30
- Worn Out Water Plant, Source: Bulletin, September 27
- Worthington
- Worthington pumping engine at Belmont mentioned, .pdf p. 85
- Would Buy Water System, Engineer Recommends Purchase by New Jersey Towns, Source: Bulletin, October 2
- Would Oust Water Board, Head of Izaak Walton League Calls Policy 'High Handed', Source: Bulletin, June 5
- Would Put Intake Further Up River, Isaac S. Walker, Chester Water Chief, Feels This Would End Delaware Sewage Menace Here, Urges 3-Mile Shift, Source: Bulletin, January 19
- Would Use Parkway For Site of 1926 Exposition, Fairmount Park Art Association Presents Plans of Professor Cret., To Beautify River Banks, Chief Object Explained as Desire to Promote Ideas of City Planning, Source not known
- W. Phila. Growls Over Its Water, Some Residents Say It Tastes Like Crude Oil; Others, Like Carbolic Acid, Up-State Plants Blamed, Source: Ledger, January 16
- W. Phila. Will Get Water Increase, Present Supply of 50,000,000 Gallons Will Be Doubled Under Bureau Plan, Bids Will Be Asked for Extensions to Belmont Filter; Probable Cost $500,000, Source: Inquirer, April 24