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Scheme, will cost $25.5 million. The estimate for Shek Pik, which is now well advanced, is $220 million. Only a very approximate estimate can be made of the cost of the Integrated Scheme, but it is expected to be about $6424 million. To this must be added an average of some $24 million a year on general development of the distribution system, making a total of over $1,225 million over the next ten years. When this programme is complete, con- ventional sources of supply which can be tapped economically will be practically exhausted and the hope must be that, if further supplies are necessary, the use of nuclear power to distil sea water will by that time have become an economic proposition.
This is the story of Hong Kong's water, a story of toil and treasure poured out to ensure that the people of the Colony shall, so far as is humanly possible, never again lack adequate supplies of one of the prime necessities of life.
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GARLIC LIBRA
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