In late nineteenth-century Boston, this public health argument— that their own families would be safer and healthier because fewer people around them would be sick-was what convinced the wealthier residents to use their taxes to pay for a municipal water system and, new for the time, a sewage system to take the polluted wastewater away.

People were convinced when the benefit was to themselves.


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