Question

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 englands 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.

Explanation:

The text mentions water - power for mills (power aspect) and inland navigation for transit of raw materials and merchandise (transportation aspect).

Answer:

Water supplied power and a means of transportation.