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to supply them from Kwangtung would require substantial

engineering work and very considerable resources.

However

the Authority has agreed to consider our long-term

requirements and to discuss what might be done in

about a year's time; that is to say before we would

have to commence any other, and of course much costlier, local means of maintaining the increase in supplies

necessary after February 1983. This latter development is of special significance, since it could very

considerably ease one of the major problems of this

community.

11 Though the High Island Dam water scheme, to be

opened shortly, will double our storage capacity, and

is a great engineering feat, it exhausts our last major

catchment area.