WATER AND HEAT IN MELBOURNE.
The extraordinary heat of the past few days has caused a very largely increased demand to be made upon the water suply of Melbourne, and there is evidence of the supply giving out. On Saturday week, between 6 a. m. and 6 p. m. the consumption m Melbourne was 12,000,000 gallons, or, for the twehe hours, 1,000,000 gallons per hour. The average consumption during the three hot days — Friday, Saturday, and Sunday— was 15,600,000 gallons per diem. From 6 a. m. on Friday to 8 p. m. on Saturday the consumption amounted to 30,000,000 gallons. During the three days abovementioned the average consumption .was sixty-four gallons per head per day, notwithstanding that one of those days was Sunday, when all the factories are stopped.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume 6, Issue 599, 14 January 1879, Page 2
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