8.04. Progress is also being made in improving the salt water flushing supplies in Hong Kong Central, Kwun Tong, Kowloon East and Kowloon West.
18.05. Waterworks is represented on various working parties and committees including:
Committee Representative(s) Water Resources Policy Committee Director of Water Supplies & Government Water Engineer Plover Cove Progress Committee Director of Water Supplies Provisional Council for the Use and Conservation of the Countryside Director of Water Supplies Colony Outline Plan Committee No. 6-Community Requirements Director of Water Supplies Colony Outline Plan Committee No. 4-Utilities and Services Government Water Engineer Building Contractors' Association/P.W.D. Joint Meeting Chief Engineer (Distribution) Resettlement Programme Committee A Senior Engineer Castle Peak and Sha Tin New Towns Works Committee Castle Peak and Sha Tin New Towns A Senior Engineer Management Committee8.06. Details of rainfall, storage, consumption and other general statistics are given in Appendix Z.
General
DISTRIBUTION DIVISION
Chief Engineer: J. S. DON, B.Sc. (Hons.), C.Eng., M.I.C.E.
8.07. This Division maintains and operates the various installations connected with the day-to-day supply of water.
Supply Section
8.08. At the end of the year 33,016 million gallons of water was held in storage including 25,393 million gallons in the Plover Cove Reservoir. Storage at the same time last year was 16,476 million gallons of which 3,709 million gallons was stored at Plover Cove. Yields from catchment areas were higher than last year due to heavier rainfall and to the full utilization of the Plover Cove Stage I and II catchment areas further supplemented by water obtained from the overflow of Jubilee Reservoir as well as from the Indus River flood pumping station which
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