WATER FAMINE
POSITION IH HEW YORK
OUTLGQK SERIOUS
ONLY TWO MONTHS’ SUPPLY
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright,
NEW YOUK, August 2
(Received August 3, at,1Q.15 a.m.)
New York is facing a serious water famine, with the city’s supply 79,000,OOOgal under normal and tho daily consumption totalling 969,000,000ga1., Tho big Ashokan reservoir, designed to contain 127,700,000,000ga1, and the principal source of supply, is now two-thirds empty. Tho Gilboa dam, the city's second largest storage project, is nearing completion, and it is hoped that it may be ready to relieve the situation before the present supply, which is estimated to bo of only two months’ duration, is exhausted. The situation is due to wind storms occurring during the summer along the watershed, and the usual spring freshets this year being disappointing. Tho officials view the conditions with alarm. All water meter inspectors have been withdrawn from their usual tasks, and assigned to the task of patrolling tho boroughs in an effort to stop wr.-to, one of the principal sources of which is the daily opening of the street hydrants to give tho children showers.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 19318, 3 August 1926, Page 5
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183WATER FAMINE Evening Star, Issue 19318, 3 August 1926, Page 5
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