"WATER FOR 30 DAYS"

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 32, 7 February 1935, Page 10

"WATER FOR 30 DAYS"

' (To the Editor.)

1 Sir, —Under this heading in tonight's "Post," we are startled By a statement !by the Mayor regarding the shortage of water. Can the City Council really expect the people to realise that there really is a water shortage, if the City Council does not practise -what is preaches? If the water position .is really so acute, is it not time, or rather 'has not the time long passed, when the council should cease hosing its grass plots? Last' Wednesday and Thursday the hose was going all 'day on the plot at the Wilton Road.depot. What ussd to be my lawn has had no water since early .in November.' This 'kind of thing makes people say "Why should I'conserve the water? '-There-cannot really be a serious shortage, if the council still uses water "-like, that."—l am, etc., ' .;'-", "" •) i \ '■"'.'; - -NOAH., (To'the Editor.) Sir, —In reference to the water shortage I would like to suggest that the City Council make a vigorous inspection of 4 taps (including their own public ones). So many people let taps not only drip but run. I visited, a friend a short time ago and remarked on a running tap over a tub.' She confessed that it had been running more or less for years.' She had had it fixed by a council inspector once but said it was just as bad as ever. One has only to set a vessel under a very small drip to discover what a wastage there is by this means. Also, another economy could well be made and that is the "cutting out of -showers in the public bathing sheds. \ A shower is plgasant after a sea bathe; but not necessary and the amount of water wasted by careless children and grown-ups, too, by. these, showers is enormous—more than would water many a dying vegetable patch.—l am, etc., TAPS,