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ONE of the subjects discussed at the recent meeting of the British Association at Aberdeen was that of the underground water supplies of Great Britain, which occupied a morning's session of Section C (Geology). Public anxiety as to the sufficiency and proper distribu tion of water supplies during the recent drought was partly a reason for choosing this topic, but there are deeper and more cogent reasons which prompted the present writer to introduce it, and the interest shown by geologists and engineers who took part in the discussion was a sufficient justification for departing from the more usual type of paper and discussion in this Section. The Committee on Inland Water Survey, inaugurated at the York meeting of the British Association two years ago, submitted a report to Section G (Engineering) at the same meeting, in which reference was made to the joint deputation of the British Association and the Institution of Civil Engineers to the Government, urging the neces sity of a complete and systematic survey of the water resources of the country. The very timely and forceful leading article which appeared in NATURE on August 4, dealing with the reception of this deputation, will be fresh in the minds of many. But the chief motive which weighed with the writer in opening the discussion in Section C was to rouse geologists to the urgent need of investigation of our underground water resources, not merely by accumulating, checking and co-ordinating records at present available, but also by starting new hydro-geological investigation, the results of which should be available ultimately for public use.
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BOULTON, W. Underground Water Supply. Nature 134, 652–654 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134652a0
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