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291 [1908
WATER SUPPLY.
The following are the particulars as to the water supply of the district
receiving water from the New River, as abstracted from the last return of the
Metropolitan Water Board.
They are a continuation of those which have been given for some years
past:—
1900-7 1907-8.
Houses Supplied 210,428 212,592
Houses on constant system 198,017 212,524
Houses not on constant system 12,411 68
Percentage of houses on constant system 94.1 99.9
Population supplied 1,379,198 1,393,668
Average daily supply (gallons) 43,472,306 42,509,789
Daily supply—Domestic purposes (gals.) 34,777,845 34,007,831
„ „ -Other purposes (gals.) 8,694,461 8,501,958
Quantity of water supplied during the year
(gals.)15,867,392,000 15,558,582,823
Average daily supply per house (gals.) 207.78 200.66
„ „ „ head (gals.) 31.52 30.50
Average daily supply per house for domestic
purposes only (gals.) 165.26 160.86
Average daily supply per head (gals.) 25.22 24.40
Average number of persons supplied per house 6.55 6.58
Capacity of subsidence reservoirs 168,100,000 168,100,000
No. of days supply 3.87 3.95