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1927 The [[Department of Scientific and Industrial Research]] set up the [[Water Pollution Research Board]], mainly as a result of representations by the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, which were becoming increasingly concerned with the problems of river pollution and its adverse effect on the supply of pure water for a growing population and industry. | |||
It had the following terms of reference:-(1) To submit from time to time schemes for research on the prevention of the pollution of rivers and other sources of water supply by industrial effluents and sewage, and on any relevant matters affecting the purity of water supplies. (2) To supervise the execution of approved investigations. | |||
Initially, the board sponsored research in the Universities. Committees were also set up by the Board to survey the pollution in certain English rivers and to make arrangements for the necessary research to be put in hand. A Water Pollution Research Board was established to submit schemes for research on the prevention of pollution, by individual effluents and sewage, of rivers and other sources of water supply, and to supervise the execution of approved investigations. Accordingly the board sponsored research in universities and set up committees to survey pollution in certain English rivers and make arrangements for the necessary research to be put in hand. Initially the organisation had no laboratories of its own and farmed out its work or, as in surveys of the Tees and Mersey, maintained small teams of workers in temporary accommodation to deal with special local problems. | |||
June 1938 the board recommended the creation of a central station adequately equipped to investigate the problems of water pollution. Plans for a new laboratory at Garston alongside the Building Research Station were approved in 1939 but abandoned on the outbreak of war. Instead temporary premises were found at a house in Watford and huts at the Building Research Station; other sections worked at Birmingham from 1938 and Coventry from 1947. | |||
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Revision as of 11:15, 18 June 2016
1927 The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research set up the Water Pollution Research Board, mainly as a result of representations by the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, which were becoming increasingly concerned with the problems of river pollution and its adverse effect on the supply of pure water for a growing population and industry.
It had the following terms of reference:-(1) To submit from time to time schemes for research on the prevention of the pollution of rivers and other sources of water supply by industrial effluents and sewage, and on any relevant matters affecting the purity of water supplies. (2) To supervise the execution of approved investigations.
Initially, the board sponsored research in the Universities. Committees were also set up by the Board to survey the pollution in certain English rivers and to make arrangements for the necessary research to be put in hand. A Water Pollution Research Board was established to submit schemes for research on the prevention of pollution, by individual effluents and sewage, of rivers and other sources of water supply, and to supervise the execution of approved investigations. Accordingly the board sponsored research in universities and set up committees to survey pollution in certain English rivers and make arrangements for the necessary research to be put in hand. Initially the organisation had no laboratories of its own and farmed out its work or, as in surveys of the Tees and Mersey, maintained small teams of workers in temporary accommodation to deal with special local problems.
June 1938 the board recommended the creation of a central station adequately equipped to investigate the problems of water pollution. Plans for a new laboratory at Garston alongside the Building Research Station were approved in 1939 but abandoned on the outbreak of war. Instead temporary premises were found at a house in Watford and huts at the Building Research Station; other sections worked at Birmingham from 1938 and Coventry from 1947.