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THE problem of providing adequate water storage JL to meet the needs of the population of Hong Kong is a peculiarly difficult one by reason of the relatively large population living in a small mountainous area in which the rainfall is confined to the monsoon period of about six months. Although provided with twelve reservoirs with a gross capacity of 3,000 million gallons, there were only seven years since 1921 during which an unrestricted supply of water could be given. Faced with the necessity of obtaining further supplies, the director of public works, Mr. R. M. Henderson, came to the conclusion that the best solution lay in constructing a reservoir which should impound the waters of the Shing Mun —a river situated in an area on the mainland leased from the Chinese Governmentin 1898 for a period of ninety-nine years and known as the ‘leased territory’.
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The Gorge Dam, Hong Kong. Nature 143, 824–825 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143824a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/143824a0