WATER SUPPLY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 65, 13 February 1935, Page 6

WATER SUPPLY.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —It seems such a pity that our enjoy’inent of a nice long spell of summer weather is partly spoilt year after year by this annual water shortage. That something should be done to provide an adequate supply of good water for drinking, sanitation, and gardening is certain. Just what is best to do is mainly a matter for the experts, but I was in Napier a week ago and was agreeably surprised to find that water there is in such abundance that hosing of gardens may be carried on without any restriction. I was told the source of supply was.solely artesian, pumped into a reservoir. This leads to the question, could we not follow Napier’s lead and overcome our water shortage by considerably increasing our present artesian supply? The deep-down underground streams are scarcely affected at all by a few months’ dry weather, whereas the surface streams quickly feel the effect of a dry .spell. The probability is that our water supply could be put into a satisfactory position, per medium of artesians to varying depths, at half the cost of harnessing surface streams, and be much more immune from the effects of a drv spell.—l am. etc-, AQUA.