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sometimes diffic lty because the demand
for water exceeds the capacity of the
filter beds. Unless the population of
the Colony decreases substantially there
can be no aterial improvement in this
position until the projected reservoir at
Tai Lam Chung and associated works are
built.
3. If, in an emergency, the New
Territories reservoirs were cut off it would
be possible to supply Kowloon from the
Island using the erece harbour pipe-linen reverse
avencent timme
the year
disection.
the and March),
At the /end of March, the worst time of the
year, there would normally be sufficient
water in the Island reservoirs to supply
(If the Colony (Island plus Kroloon)_riz. Art 1,850,000 persons (per day
the whole of the present population/with
ten gallons per head for 44 days, although, for
technical reasons, probably no more than
penday (in practice.
3 gallons per head could be supplied to
Kowloon. There is no effective means
of reserving water for drinking and othår
only essential purposes and consumption would have
to be controlled by recourse to the usual
expedient of restricting hours of supply for
all uses. Hours of supply for Hong Kong and
Kowloon would be staggered, and would probably
be limited to four hours daily each.
daily
It would be possible to supplement these
reservoir
supplies to a limited extent by water from wells
usually used for flushing, but this would be brackish or polluted and require to be boiled.
4.It sum
unlined that
oblockade
in siege conditions population of the Colony would be greater than lit
in or present
Indeed it
Chinese women
would probably be smaller mory of leave the
while timble lastest.
since to thei
every
The