An undertaking for the improv ment of civic conditions in, Pootung Will be inaugurated some time next month when the first waterworks will Begin. functioning. It will supply pure water at a cost ten times cheap per than that of the labour of carry-Ing filthy water from the river to the consumers as has been done since time immemori The outward symbol of an effort for the modernization of the vast. ter~ ritory which has had bus lines and {ts supply of electricity, the plant is bby no means imposing in appearance. Squeezed in between the Yeo Tsoong! factory and the Bulterfeld & Swire godown in Lancedo district opposite
occupying an area of ten mow, the French Bund, "the waterworks nevertheless capable of meeting the} present demand with ample room for future expansion.
Three million gallons a day will be the not output of the plant, and if necessary the amount may be increased to 3,600.00 gallons for peak Output during the summer days at a moment's notice. Further "develop ments will enable the plant to supply as much as 8,000,000 gallons a day.
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