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urban water problems in the 1800s?

i have a presentation i have to do. its for american history. i could answer all the questions except for two.
back in the 1800s, drinking water was so dirty and whatever, and it gave people diseases. my questions are: how did urban cities and reform groups try to solve this problem? (what did they do to help) and then evaluate the groups’ efforts to try and solve it. (was it effective?)
if you could answer this, and maybe give me a source (because i need to have a work cited page with more than one source; one is my book, one is another source) i’ve looked all over the internet and cant find anything about the urban water problems in the 1800s in the US. thanks for your help! :D
I researched 19th century sanitation and found the following links: some mention all aspects of sanitation, including water, while the last one begins its discussion with water sources and changes in the 19th century.

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3 Responses to “urban water problems in the 1800s?”

  1. Typhoid and Cholera ran ride through water systems, try these links for more info.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterborne_diseases

    http://history1900s.about.com/od/1900s/a/typhoidmary.htm

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholera

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholera_epidemic_of_1831

    References :

  2. I researched 19th century sanitation and found the following links: some mention all aspects of sanitation, including water, while the last one begins its discussion with water sources and changes in the 19th century.
    References :
    Filthy dirty : a social history of unsanitary Philadelphia in the late nineteenth century, by Sam Alewitz, New York: Garland Pub., 1989

    http://campus.udayton.edu/~hst-102/VIKIPAGE.HTM

    http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_1741500824_5/United_States_People.html (especially check C2 that talks about switching from rain barrels to central water systems)

    http://www.fromsitetostory.org/sources/papers/tcmsanitation/tcmsanitation.asp

  3. To bad it has to be about the USA, since London (UK) has an interesting story about this: The Great Stench.

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article4152023.ece
    References :

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