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So the siting of reservoirs on Hong Kong or in Kowloon must
be considered indepenuently of any question of rendition,
In any case the Aberdeen scheme would practically
exhaust the possibilities of obtaining water in Hong
Kong Island.
5.
Consurrence was expressed in the views in
the Council Paper by Mr. Henderson and Mr. Jackson
respectively that no perceptible relief could be
obtained by using sea water for flushing drains etc.,
and that the distillation of sea water was too expensive
a process to be contemplated.
6. Sir C. Clementi stated that he had been
informed by a Canadian geologist who visited the Colony
that there was no possibility of obtaining a supply
from deep wells as the Colony was underlaid by a mass
of solid and impervious igneous rocks.
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