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Thursday, November 29, 1973
Mr. Robertson then went on to describe some of the major activities
of his department.
On water, he said: "The long-term plans for augmenting our
water resources have borne fruit in another the sixth successive
of continuous supply. In the past six years we have distributed more
water than in the previous 18 years.
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year
"This year saw the completion of the works to increase the
sapacity of Plover Cove reservoir to 50,000 million gallons which is by
itself three times the total storage capacity of all of our reservoirs
10 years ago."
Desalter
In the meantime work was continuing apace on the Lok On Pai
desalter still the largest in the world
――
and a valuable source of
40 million gallons per day which will gradually come on stream in 1975.
This will be followed closely by the High Island Reservoir Scheme which
will add another 70 million gallons per day during the period 1976-78.
Mr. Robertson said while he was happy that his department was
on top of the problem of providing water resources, he was less happy
about its ability to provide the standard of service which the 600,000
paying customers of the Waterworks Office should have.
This is, in part, due to an inadequate accounting and billing
system which creaks and groans while barely achieving its accounting
task, but fails completely to yield information essential to deal with
customer queries and complaints," he said.
The Public