WATER SHORTAGE IN ENGLAND.
REQUEST FOR ECONOMY. (BRITISH OTTICIkZ, WIRELESS.} (Received July ISth, 7.10 p.m.) RUGBY, July 17. The Ministry of Health lias sent a request to local authorities to economise in their water supplies, accompanied by a warning that "statistics now available for a long succession of years indicate that the rainfall during the next few years may continue to fall short of tho average." Over practically the whole of England there has been, this year, an abnormally low rainfall unequalled since 1921. 'The Ministry's warning coincides with a spell of very warm weather, the shade temperature at Kew vesterdav reaching SO degrees Fahrenheit, wbich is 18 degrees above the average day maximum for mid-July, and has onlv once been exceeded since 1870.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19675, 19 July 1929, Page 11
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