WATER RATIONING.

Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 243, 15 October 1942, Page 4

WATER RATIONING.

[To The Ed'ftor.] Sir, — I don't know hiow many thousands of pounds the work in the Taylor pass designed to give Blenheim a better water supply cost, but with all the bad weather to d'elay things and some of the workmen drawing over £9 a week free of tax, it must have been a very substantial sum. Yet here we are again, back to rationing, only earlier than ever this year. The reason is said to be that some householders are leaving tiieir hoses turned on'all day and all night, thus playing havoc with the pressjure. So, instead of seeking these people out and prosecuting them, the 33orough Council does the easy but grossly unfair thing and restricts the hpsing hours for everybody. That isn't democracy; it's the sort of thing we hate the Nazis for, punishing the innocent for the crimes of the guilty. We are going to he very short of much garden "truck in Blenheim this season, and what we are able to buy will probably be at very high prices. Many people, have therefore been hoping to grow a bit more for themselves, but the Sorough Council says "No; we've got^ the water, you can see it running io waste in the town, but you gardeners can't have it because one or two of you have been stealing it." If the Council instituted an inspec - tion system to stop the all-night hosers and to cheek up on leaky taps and leaky hoses, and went slow on the watertable waste during the early morning and evening, they would be able to givd us what we need and have every right to expect, namely, sufficient water for our gar--dens, instead of this beastly ration.

A RATEPAYER.