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FEW problems of immediate importance in the pioneer development of colonial territories are more urgent than the provision of an adequate water supply. Various geological surveys and irrigation departments give advice on particular schemes, but no book which would serve as a general guide has hitherto been available. Dr. Dixey has realised the necessity for such a book as a result of his experience in Nyasaland, and those who are called upon to provide water supplies in outlying regions owe him a deep debt of gratitude for the very practical and thoroughly competent treatise which he has been stimulated to write.
A Practical Handbook of Water Supply.
By Dr. Frank Dixey. Pp. xxviii + 571. (London: Thomas Murby and Co., 1931.) 21s. net.
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A Practical Handbook of Water Supply . Nature 129, 492 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129492a0
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