Our present and future water supply
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Walker, John A. 'Our present and future water supply'. - Dublin: Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland,Vol. X Part LXXIV, 1893/1894, pp22-34Download Item:
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Abstract:
Public attention has been directed to the water supply to the city
and townships during the past year more than has been the case
since the foundation of the Vartry system.
It seemed to require some such event as the unexampled drought
of 1893 to arouse the public mind from the state of lethargy into
which it had fallen during the past quarter of a century. So constant
had been the Vartry service, so abundant in quantity, and so
excellent in quality, that the inhabitants of the city and townships
believed it was inexhaustible, and in that belief they were satisfied
to rest content. But those who were behind the scenes, who had
an opportunity of guaging the inflow and outflow at the Roundwood reservoir, who were acquainted with the constantly increasing demand
made upon that basin both by the increased area supplied
and the wasteful extravagance of consumers, had a different
tale to tell They knew that the Vartry was not an inexhaustible
quantity; that under certain conditions it might fail altogether.
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Read Tuesday, 13th March, 1894
Author: Walker, John A.
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Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of IrelandType of material:
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Journal of The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of IrelandVol. X Part LXXIV 1893/1894
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Water supply, Vartry systemISSN:
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