[Answer] The excerpt is from The History of Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain by Edward Baines.A great number of streams . . . furnish water-power adequate to turn many hundred mills: they afford the element of water indispensable for scouring bleaching printing dyeing and other processes of manufacture: and when collected in their larger channels or employed to feed canals they supply a superior inland navigation so important for the transit of raw materials and merchandise.According to the excerpt in what ways did water help England’s industrial boom? WWI