DWINDLING WATER SUPPLY
Acute Position In Auckland
(N.Z.P.A.) AUCKLAND, Jan. 12. Auxiliary water sources are being harnessed to augment Auckland’s dwindling supply under drought conditions, and by next week the city and suburbs will be drawing at least 3,000,000 gallons daily by pumping from below the gravitation levels. The present consumption is at the record high average level of 18.000.000 gallons daily reached last autumn. This includes the heavy demands of camps, war industries, and service hospitals. Tire city authorities are urging economy iii the use of water to avoid the need of compulsory restrictions. Reports coming in tell of falling water supplies in districts where people are dependent upon tanks, shallow wells, and small streams. A number of holiday bookings at places where the water position is most acute have been cancelled by accommodation house proprietors because they are unable to accept guests. Auckland’s December rainfall was only about half the monthly average and only ,14in has fallen so far this month.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLV, Issue 22789, 13 January 1944, Page 3
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163DWINDLING WATER SUPPLY Timaru Herald, Volume CLV, Issue 22789, 13 January 1944, Page 3
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