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To make the best possible use of the existing resources, work has already commenced on a programme of improvements designed to eliminate the shortage of filtration and service reservoir capacity, modernisation of pumping plants and improvements to the distribution systems. However, no improvements in detail will ever impress the consumer who goes to the tap to find it dry, yet this is what must be, daily, for certain periods of every year until substantial additional resources are provided, and I can only conclude by repeating Sir Reginald Stubbs' words already quoted that "whatever the sum may prove to be, no price is too big to pay for an assurance of a really adequate water supply for many years to come."
I have to acknowledge the assistance I have received from various members of the Waterworks Staff, in particular the Acting Water- works Engineer Mr. J. Forbes, and also the South China Morning Post Ltd. for the loan of their records of the 1929 water shortage which contained many valuable references. Finally, I have to thank the Water Authority, Mr. V. Kenniff, for permission to publish this paper.
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