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to supply them from Kwangtung would require substantial
engineering work and very considerable resources.
However
the Authority has agreed to consider our long-term
requirements and to discuss what might be done in
about a year's time; that is to say before we would
have to commence any other, and of course much costlier, local means of maintaining the increase in supplies
necessary after February 1983. This latter development is of special significance, since it could very
considerably ease one of the major problems of this
community.
11 Though the High Island Dam water scheme, to be
opened shortly, will double our storage capacity, and
is a great engineering feat, it exhausts our last major
catchment area.