For the purpose of creating a fund out of which anti-pollution-of-water measures may be financed, any city or village in this state is hereby authorized and empowered to make a special levy of not exceeding three and five-tenths cents on each one hundred dollars upon the taxable value of all the taxable property within such city or village, the proceeds of such levy to be used for such measures.
Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 18-512