THE WATER SUPPLY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 73, 19 December 1907, Page 2

THE WATER SUPPLY.

The City Engineer (Mr. \\. H. : Morton) would order .rain if the : disposal ■ of ■ • the weather entered his province. It must not bo construed from this that thero is a. shortage, but tho big now dam at Karoriis now. high enough to nold a good deal more water than' tho 30,000,000 gallons. already stored there, and, seeing that the dry season has already been felt by. suburbanites who depend on tank supplies, it would be nico to fool that thero wore still another 20.000,000 or 30,000,000 ' gallons between Wellington and thirst, particularly' as the city is now supplying Island Bay, Brooklyn, and part of Kilbirnie,, from the mains that in the immediate present have precisely the same source of supply as the city had twenty years ago. The now surface reservoir for the supply of Kclburne has' been completed, nnd tho district is being reticulated. Connections 1 with the mains are , being made aa rapidly as possible in the reticulated suburbs, and so fierce has been' the demands that the local supply of stopcocks has run short, to tho distraction , of the plumbers and the people possessed of hollow-sounding • tanks. The multi-stago turbine pump for the Kelburne reservoir was to have been shipped from London on December 12.