PLENTY OF WATER

Evening Star, Issue 19781, 3 February 1928, Page 3

PLENTY OF WATER

BUT NOT FOR GARDENS OVER HUNDRED MILLION GALLONS STORED Duucdin is not threatened with a water shortage. There need be no fears of a thirsty and bathless community because the City Council has made an appeal lor conservation of water. The continued hot weather has had its effect on the gardens, and the citizens are really extravagant in the use ot water' from the hose pipes. The position is that the amateur gardeners will have to reduce their daily issue of water to the gardens and allow the residents on the higher level to have a better supply. “There is no actual scarcity ot water,” stated the City Engineer (Mr j. G. Alexander) to-day, “ but the trouble, as in all droughts, is that the people are using far too much water on their gardens, thus robbing their fellow-citizens on the higher levels. When the water is drawn off in the lower levels there is_ insufficient pressure to supply the higher levels.” Although Dunedin has an ample stock of water, the mains arc not elastic. and some districts are suffering. The shortage of water is being felt particularly at Anderson’s Bay, where the water problem forever borders on the critical. . The Boss Creek Reservoir is rather low, but Sullivan’s Dam is full. The supply to the reservoirs from the feeders is falling off slowly, but not to an alarming extent. There aro 125,662,000 gallons at present in the city reservoirs. The quantity is lower than at the same period in 1925 and 1926, but the reservoirs have been considerably lower in previous years.