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DEFINITE quantitative results of the Inland Water Survey Committee's investigations are forthcoming in the Surface Water Year-Book of Great Britain 1935-36 (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 5s. net) which is a statistical report (issued by the Ministry of Health and the Scottish Office) relating to the inland water resources of Great Britain during the twelve months ended September 30, 1936. The publication provides detailed information about the surface water, resources of a dozen drainage basins, together with their rainfall. Results for underground water are being published separately in a different form. Twenty-seven rivers, at twenty-eight gauging stations, have been the subject of continuous measurement and the results are tabulated in regard to daily maximum and minimum water levels and daily mean discharge in cusecs. The Year-Book furnishes, moreover, in each case a brief description of the station and the drainage area, together with monthly evaluations of rainfall. The issue of this publication, which is to be continued annually, marks a further stage in the development of the Survey and it will be welcomed by all the various bodies who are interested in the use and application of water whether for agricultural purposes, or for land drainage, fisheries, industries, navigation, sewage disposal or water supplies and the like. Some useful conversion tables are included.
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Inland Water Survey. Nature 142, 107 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142107c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/142107c0