Excerpt from Minutes of Proceedings, 1896 Having ascertained that the water of the Rio de la Plata, when filtered, was in every way suitable for the domestic supply of the city, Mr. Bateman presented a Report to the Improvements Commission in the year 1871, in which he explained in detail what he considered would be an adequate supply of water for the city, and the works which would be necessary to introduce it. As the census returns were imperfect, careful investigations were made as to the number of persons residing in that portion of the city which it was proposed to sewer and supply with water, and it was decided that the works in the first instance should be con structed for a population of and that a much larger population should be anticipated at no distant date. Basing his calculations upon the consumption of water in English towns which were equipped with efficient sanitary systems, and allowing an additional quantity on account of the higher temperature of Buenos Ayres, Mr. Bateman considered that a consumption of 40 gallons per head per day of the population should be provided for; and further, that it should be anticipated that the population would more than double itself in twenty years. It was therefore determined that the ultimate capacity of the works should be sufficient to deliver gallons of water per twenty-four hours for use throughout the city; and, further, as the consumption was more intermittent than in most towns, that the storage capacity of the service-reservoir, and also the distributing mains, should admit of water being delivered at a rate considerably in excess of the average daily consumption. Only those parts of the works which could not be easily duplicated were constructed in the first instance for the full supply, the remainder being of only suflicient capacity to supply gallons per twenty-four hours. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.