LONDON’S WATER SUPPLY
A recent memoir of the geological survey of Great Britain on the water supply of the County of London from underground sources, states that London wells supplying the population with water have doubled since 1911. About 500 wells provide half a gallon of water per head per day out of the thirty-seven million gallons which the Metropolitan Water Board distributes to nearly 8,000,000 people. In addition, the wells give 4J gallons per head drawn by private owners mainly for industrial purposes.
Eleven and a half per cent, of London County’s water comes from underground sources. At the beginning of the 17th century, the memoir recalls, most of the streams through the town had become choked and partly buried, and few of the public wells, such as Holywell and Clerkenwell, remained. About this time the first deep wells were opened, while in the 19th century supplies began to be taken from the Thames, and its tributaries outside London. These external surface sources now provide the main source of London’s water.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume LXX, Issue 3639, 25 September 1939, Page 7
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172LONDON’S WATER SUPPLY Cromwell Argus, Volume LXX, Issue 3639, 25 September 1939, Page 7
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