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THE first Annual Report of the Committee appointed in January, 1935, jointly by the Minister of Health and the Secretary of State for Scotland, “to advise on the Inland Water Survey for Great Britain, on the progress of the measures undertaken and on further measures required and, in particular, to make an annual report on the subject”, has been awaited with keen anticipation in many quarters, and especially by those engaged in the use and exploitation of the water supplies of Great Britain. It was scarcely to be expected, however, that during the first year of its existence, the Committee would be able to achieve any remarkable results. Its first duty was, naturally, to review the existing conditions and to ascertain the extent to which processes and methods in vogue could be adapted to some uniform and standardized system of procedure. The purpose of the survey, as set out in the Report now issued (London: H.M. Stationery Office. 3d. net.), “is to correlate the information at present obtained from all sources, to extend and increase the sources of information, and to make the information readily available for the use of the interests concerned”. This has involved exploratory investigations in various directions and the issue of inquiries, which took the form of a detailed questionnaire (reproduced in an appendix to the Report) to which replies have been received from about 3,000 bodies and persons. The replies show that there is a good deal of information available, but that it is varied in type and date, is insufficient and lacks co-ordination and distribution?an endorsement of the conclusions arrived at by the British Association Committee in its report to the Leicester meeting, 1933.
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National Inland Water Survey. Nature 138, 19 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138019a0
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