WATER SHORTAGE
LONDON DROUGHT A SERIOUS POSITION LONDON, June 5. Without rain for three weeks, London’s water supply position is grave. The flow of the Thames daily above Teddington Weir is 519,000,000 gallons below the normal June average, which is 819,000,000 gallons. The quantity available from the Thames 55.000,000 gallons daily is below requirements, so the Water Board is drawing on storages which t°ta] 70 days’ supply. The chairman says the drought is the most serious since ' a record has been kept for ton years.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 133, 7 June 1934, Page 5
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85WATER SHORTAGE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 133, 7 June 1934, Page 5
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