Emergency Water Supplies for Military, Agricultural, and Colonial Purposes: Based on Experience of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force Operations, with Special Reference to the use of Drive Tube Wells and Drilling

Abstract

POSSIBLY no problem is of such vital importance to the pioneer and settler as that of the location of a suitable source of water supply for drinking and potable purposes; scarcely less inevitable is the problem in connexion with military incursions jnto countries which are destitute of uncontaminated surface supplies and ill-suited for overland transport. Therefore, to all classes of adventurers and explorers, whether prospecting, colonising, or expeditionary, Mr. Beeby Thompson's book, with its valuable record of methods and contrivances used in connexion with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force operations, will come with welcome interest, affording much practical precept and useful advice.

Emergency Water Supplies for Military, Agricultural, and Colonial Purposes: Based on Experience of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force Operations, with Special Reference to the use of Drive Tube Wells and Drilling.

By A. Beeby Thompson. Pp. xii + 180 + 45 plates. (London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1924.) 21s. net.