NEW YORK'S PLIGHT

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 29, 3 August 1926, Page 7

NEW YORK'S PLIGHT

■ « — SERIOUS WATER FAMINE MAIN RESERVOIR TWO-THIRDS EMPTY. (United Press Association.—Copyright ) (Australian-New Zealand Cable Assn.) (Received 3rd August, 10 a.m.) NEW YORK, 2nd August. New York is facing a serious water famine, with the city's . supply 79,000,000 gallons under normal, and a daily consumption, due and uninterrupted, totalling 969,000,000 gallons. The big Ashokan Reservoir, designed to contain 127,700,000,000 gallons? and the principal source of supply, i s aow twothirds empty. The Gilboa Dam, the city a second largest storage project, is neanng completion, and it is hoped may be ready to relieve the ajtuation before the present supply, which i g estimated to last only two months is exhausted. The situation is due to the fact that the storms occurring in the summer aJong the watershed, and the usual spring freshets this year have been disappointing. Officials view the conditions with alarm, and sill water-meter inspectors have been withdrawn from their usual tasks ana assigned to patrol the boroughs in the effort to stop waste, one of the principal sources of which is the daily opening of street hydrants to give the children showers on account of the heat.