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HAVING observed in NATURE (p. 375) an article on the drought of past years, and the probability of one this year also, from deficient rainfall, I take the occasion of suggesting that the old reservoirs might still be made more available for an additional storage of water to counteract its effects. As there is always abundance of rainfall, 40 inches, in Lancashire, and on its surrounding hills, from the cities of which district come complaints of want of water supplies, no fear need be entertained of lack of water if the rain could be all impounded without loss.
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BLACK, W. Water Supplies and Reservoirs. Nature 37, 439 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/037439c0
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