Sydney Faces Water Famine
REDUCTION BY ONE THIRD TO AVOID MAJOR CALAMITY
Received Wednesday, 11.10 p.m.
SYDNEY, Nov. 6.
Householders in the metropolitan area were to-day confronted with the gravest report on the domestic water crisis yet presented to the Metropolitan Water Board by its responsible officers who declare that to avoid a major calamity water consumption in the metropolitan area must not during summer exceed seventy million gallons daily. In other words consumption must be reduced by one third.
The officers say the present drought has exceeded by twelve months the longest ever previously recorded and storage in the reservoir* is faUing at the rate of 5,000,000,000 gallons weekly. The danger point is likely to be reached in two months, it should be possible, the report said, to reduce consumption to eighteen gallons daily per individual compared with 45] gallons which is the present daily consumption pear individual.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 264, 6 November 1941, Page 5
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