portrait of Ellen H. Swallow Richards

Ellen H. Swallow Richards

Ellen H. Richards Pioneers Management of Water Pollution and its Effect upon Health

1911
Panorama of a Stream's Pollution, frontispiece of Richards' book

Panorama of a Stream's Pollution, frontispiece of Richards' book

In 1911 industrial and environmental chemist Ellen Henrietta (Swallow) Richards published Conservation by Sanitation: Air and Water Supply; Disposal of Waste [Including a Laboratory Guide for Sanitary Engineers], a work which was particularly concerned with the management of water pollution and its effect on human heal

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