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Water supply and quality of drinking water in Moscow in the 19th – early 20th centuries

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Davydov Andrey
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The article is devoted to the development of centralized water supply in Moscow from the opening of the gravity-flowing Ekaterininsky (Mytishchinsky) water pipeline with spring water in 1804 to commissioning of Moskvoretsky water pipeline in 1903–12, which supplied the city dwellers with purified water from the Moskva River. Along with the centralized water supply, attention is also paid to the traditional forms of decentralized water supply with the delivery of water by water carters and the consumption of unfiltered water from open reservoirs and dug wells by the city dwellers. Attention is paid to the quality of drinking water, which was considered during the construction and reconstruction of Moscow water pipelines, formation of long-term plans for the development of water supply, protection of water supply sources from pollution in the context of sanitary measures to protect the population from epidemic diseases.
Davydov Andrey N.
Candidate of Historical Sciences,
Central State Archive of Moscow
Moscow, Russia
andrey.nik.davidov@yandex.ru
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Keywords:
water supply, water pipeline, water carter, spring water, ground water, quality of drinking water, water hardness, water filtration, Moscow, water and sanitary inspection
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Davydov Andrey Water supply and quality of drinking water in Moscow in the 19th – early 20th centuries. Historia provinciae – the journal of regional history, 2018, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 55–74. DOI: 10.23859/2587-8352-2018-2-1-4

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