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 england’s industrial boom?
a> ) water supplied power and a means of transportation.
b> )water people build hundreds of mills.
c> )water people trade goods with nations overseas.
d> )water enabled people to create raw materials.