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Gardens Service Reservoir.

The former should be sufficiently

advanced to allow of one side being brought into use in abo ut another month, but the latter has been held over meantime owing to the necessity of proceeding with more urgent works.

With the completion of these Works, the total supply available in Kowloon is about five million gallons per day.

Existing Kowloon Supply.

Byewash Dam.

Island Supply.

Total Supply 1932.

Last year the Byewash Dan below the existing Kowloon Reservoir was commenced and should be completed early in 1931. With this additional Reservoir, the water available in Kowloon will be about 5.66 million gallons per day.

The existing supply on the Island is rated at 74 million gallons per day, but with the addition of the Aberdeen Valley Scheme, now under construction, this figure will be raised to 9.37 million gallons per day by the middle

of 1932.

With the linking of the Kowloon and Hong Kong Supplies by the Cross Harbour Pipe, the capacity of the two Supplies can now, up to a point, be calculated as one.

With works now in hand the total supply available to the Colony (apart from Village Supplies) in 1932 will be 5.66 and 9.37 million gallons per day from Kowloon and Hong Kong respectively, or a total of 15.03 million gallons per day.

Total Requirements In my report on the Water Supply of the Colony 1932.

dated 20th February, 1928, I estimated the requirements of Kowloon and Hong Kong in 1932 at 4.9 and 11.6 million gallons per day, or a total of 16.5 million gallons per day.

There will therefore be a shortage of 1.5 million gallons per day in 1932 after allowing for the completion

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