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Service Reservoirs.
32.
33.
The total available capacity of the various
service reservoirs on the Mainland, including the one now
practically complete at Shek Lai Pui, is 15 15 M.G., which
will be sufficient to meet the estimated requirements for
the next six years.
The construction of another service reservoir
should be put in hand at about that time, but as the large
storage in Shek Lai Pui is somewhat remote from the area of
supply, it is desirable that local service reservoirs should
be constructed to suit developments.
General.
34.
The estimated population for 1930 for Kowloon
is 178,000, and the corresponding rate per head is 26 gallons
per diem. This figure compares with 24 gallons on the
Island, and is a measure of the way in which the rate per
head must increase as housing conditions improve.
NEW WORKS.
35.
36.
We have shown that for 1936 the maintainable yield
of the Island sources of supply will equal, the estimated
requirements, and by the same year the maintainable yield of
the Mainland sources will fall short of the estimated require-
ments by 13 M.G.D.
To avoid restrictions of supply in the event or
sequence of critically dry years, it will therefore be
necessary to have further sources available in time for the
rains of 1935.