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THE annual meeting of the British Waterworks Association at Cambridge on June 26 was the occasion for a vigorous and outspoken presidential address by Prof. C. E. Inglis, who, after a brief but interesting account of the origin and early development of the University, reviewed the policy of successive Governments in the past in respect of water supply for the needs of the country, and made some caustic comments on the “futile process of appointing water Commissions and pigeon-holing their reports” which has been its chief characteristic. He added that he regretted to observe the reappearance of the “policy of procrastination which has blighted waterworks legislation for the past 60 years” in the recent announcement by the Minister of Health in the House of Commons that as a preliminary to water legislation of a general character, a Joint Committee of the House of Lords and the House of Commons was to be set up to report “on measures for the better conservation and organisation of water resources and supplies in England and Wales”.
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The British Waterworks Association: Annual Meeting. Nature 136, 39 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136039a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136039a0