The New Plant Necessitated by Average Annual Increase of 10 Per Cent, in Demand: The Chief Engineer's Interesting 'A lecture of absorbing interest, to thousands of people beyond the engineers who would be better able to appreciate the technical points was delivered by Mr. C. D. Pearsom, chief and manager of the Shanghai Waterworks, at 9 meeting of the Engineering Society of China in the Astor House Hotel, fon Tuesday, The subject was the extensions made and proposed the waterworks. Mr, Pearson'
Owing to growth of the popula. tion and an ever extending demand for water for domestic and industrial uses it has been necessary for the Shanghai Waterworks Ca., Ld.
make periodical increases their plant and distribution system. The purification and pumping plant, as well as the distribution mains, have necessarily to be designed to deal with the heaviest demand put upon them at any one moment. The maximum hourly demand in the past five years has had an average: annual increase of 10 per cent. Before: describing the steps which have been and are being taken to deal with this increased demand, it will be as well to explain the various methods employed in dealing with the water in its journey from the Huangpu to the consumer.
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