The Nagpur Waterworks

The discussion upon this Paper occupied portions of three evenings, but an abstract of the whole is given consecutively.

Up to the time of the completion of the works about to be described, the inhabitants of the city Often suffered severely in consequence Of the scanty and impure nature of the water supply. It appears from an Official return, made in 1864, that out Of twelve hundred and thirty-one wells sunk in the basaltic and metamorphic rocks on which the city is built, about nine hundred yielded brackish water; and even those yielding fresh water are thought to have been contaminated by the main drain Of the town. Besides wells, there were two other sources of supply - the J uma Talao, an artificial tank or reservoir, between the native town and the civil station (plate 1, Fig. And an Old and decayed work, fed from a reservoir at Ambajhari, 4 miles from the city. The former of these sources was not sufficiently elevated to com mand the city, and the water was unfit for drinking owing to the drainage area being thickly inhabited; the latter source will be again referred to.

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