Gals. daily. New River Company 20,000,000 Chelsea Company 3,250,000 West Middlesex Company 3,650,000 Grand Junction Company 3,500,000 East London Company 7,000,000 South Lambeth Company 2,500,000 South London Company and Southwark Company 3,000,000 Hampstead Company 400,000 Kent Company 1,200,000 —————————— 44,500,000 Artesian Wells 8,000,000 Land-spring Pumps 3,000,000 “Catch” rain water (say) 1,000,000 —————————— Making a total quantity supplied daily to London, from all sources, of 56,500,000 ‘An abundant supply,’ said an engineer eagerly, ‘for as the present population of the metropolis is estimated at 2,336,000, the total affords about 24 gallons of water per day, for every man, woman, and child.’ ‘Admitted,’ rejoined Lyttleton; ‘but we have to deal with large deductions; first, nearly half this quantity runs to waste, chiefly in consequence of the intermittent system. I live in a small house with proportionately small cisterns, which are filled no more than three times a week; now, as my neighbours have larger houses and larger reservoirs, the water when turned on runs for as long a time into my small, as it does into their capacious cisterns, and consequently, if my stop-taps be in the least out of order, a greater quantity descends the waste pipe than remains behind. This is universally the case in similar circumstances.’ ‘_We_ supply water daily, Sundays excepted,’ remarked the Engineer. ‘Then you are wiser than your neighbours. But every inconvenience and nearly all the waste, would be saved by the adoption of the continuous system of supply. Secondly, a large quantity of water is consumed by cattle, breweries, baths, public institutions, for putting out fires, and for laying dust. The lieges of London have only, therefore, to divide between them some 10 gallons of water each per day; and, as it is generally admitted that a sixth part of their habitations are without water at all, the division must be most unequally made. That such is the fact is shown by your own figures—your customers get 25 gallons each per day, or more than double their share. For this excess, some in poorer districts get none at all.’