Pollution Profiteers Poison Kansas Waterways

In the heart of the American Midwest, a sinister plot was brewing in the state of Kansas. On April 19, 1922, a conference of municipal officials and employees gathered at the University of Kansas, where Dean P.F. Walker, a renowned engineer and former president of the Kansas Society of Engineers, delivered a scathing indictment of corporate greed. Walker’s impassioned plea highlighted the catastrophic threat posed by industrial pollution to the water supply of numerous Kansas cities.