CHAPTER 65
Water!
Hmmm…it seems Kilmer House is back to the water theme this week. So, here goes: How did a serious water shortage in the Nineteen-teens end up benefiting the residents of New Brunswick? And what did Johnson & Johnson have to do with that?
In the Nineteen-teens, the City of New Brunswick faced a problem. The city got its water supply from a local brook, and the brook was going dry. The only other water source nearby – the river -- was too muddy to use without treating the water first….and anyway, it would take too much time to build a filtration plant to do any good
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