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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?

Water supplied power and a means of transportation.
Water helped people build hundreds of mills.
Water helped people trade goods with nations overseas.
Water enabled people to create raw materials.

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"Water supplied power and a means of transportation."

Explanation: the passage says streams furnished water-power to turn many mills and, when collected or used to feed canals, supplied inland navigation for moving raw materials and merchandise. The other choices misstate the passage (it speaks of powering/operating mills, not building them; inland transit, not overseas trade; and water enabled manufacturing processes, not creation of raw materials).