What Became off Sanitary Engineering

Water Utility Hall of Fame provides a natural platform upon which to examine the fate and the disappearance of a distinguished professional discipline, generally known as sanitary engineering and peculiar to the US. Fair was one of its earliest teachers, one of the major investigators of its components, and one of the most productive of its active disciples. Many lessons emerge from a review of Fair's accomplishments and subject matter, as contrasted with the nomenclature and content of present environmental activities. The forerunner of the sanitary engineer was, perhaps, William T. Sedgwick, the Massachusetts Inst, of Tech. professor to whom Fair was exposed as a student about 1915. Sedgwick, early in the twentieth century, observed