300. Consumption. 9,971 million gallons of water were supplied to the Urban areas and a further 501 million gallons to the New Territories villages during the year, a decrease of 3.057 and an increase of 3.55% respectively on the corresponding figures for the previous year.
301. In the Urban areas the hours of supply totalled 1,441.5, making an average of about 4 per day as against a total of 3,397.5 with an average of 9.3 for the previous year.
This represents a reduction of approximately 57%.
302. During the 8-hour supply period a peak consumption of 40 million gallons per day was recorded on May 8th, and during the 3-hour period when zoning was in force another peak consumption of 28 million gallons was recorded on July 17th. The maximum daily consumption, however, occurred on the 23rd January during the Chinese New Year holidays, and amounted to 51.4 million gallons. This was the highest ever recorded.
303. It was not possible to allow a full supply over any public holiday with the exception of Chinese New Year when water was made available between 0600 hours on 23rd and 0900 hours on 25th January.
304. Distribution. The very short hours of supply made it very difficult even with zoning to ensure a really equitable distribution of the water. To improve the situation a considerable amount of main and sub-main laying was carried out and low pressure areas were connected direct to high pressure trunk mains.
305. Water Analyses. The usual close watch on the quality of water was maintained and numerous samples of raw, filtered and chlorinated filtered water were tested by the Government Pathologist and Chemist. The general standard was good and in the few samples which were not of the required standard of purity, the source of pollution was traced and eradicated. The whole of the distribution system in the Peak district
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