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THE Minister of Health has recently appointed a Standing Advisory Committee βto confer with representatives of the Ministry on questions of water supply.β From a reference in the public announcement of this appointment to the final report of the Water Power Resources Committee of the Board of Trade, it would appear at first sight that the step is the outcome of one of the recommendations put forward by that Committee in its report of November 1921, which wras reviewed in NATURE of February 9 last year (vol. 109, p. 161). The proposal therein made, it may be recalled, was for the formation by Act of Parliament of a controlling water commission having jurisdiction over England and Wales, with statutory powers and duties. In commenting on such a far-reaching and momentous proposal, we felt it desirable to deprecate the idea of setting up a fresh department with a retinue of officials and an additional burden of salaries for the taxpayer.
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A National Water Policy. Nature 111, 349β350 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111349a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/111349a0