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Harcourt in emphatically answering "No/' and his readers can, we think, hardly fail to agree with him.
The former Secretary of the Board of Trade shows how inevitable is the early construction of works for an entirely new supply; how the Lea is already giving out, and the Thames near exhaustion as a source of potable water; how the existing machinery of distri- bution and filtration is, in any case, defective; and how " aqueducts larger than Rome ever contemplated " must be undertaken for the c...ity whose size and whose wealth Rome itself never approached. How, then, in the face of these new needs, can the metro- polis bo asked to pay thirty-three millions sterling for the obsolete plant which has already yielded its owners such an excellent return for their outlay ?
"But Parliament," continued Sir W. Harcourt's Committee, " is not unequal to redress such mischiefs to the public interests. The manner in which the gas companies have been dealt with by Parliament may be referred to in illustration of the methods by which a remedy for such a state of things may be effectually provided." For, be it always remem- bered, the eight London water companies have never
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Harcourt in emphatically answering "No/' and his readers can, we think, hardly fail to agree with him.
The former Secretary of the Board of Trade shows how inevitable is the early construction of works for an entirely new supply; how the Lea is already giving out, and the Thames near exhaustion as a source of potable water; how the existing machinery of distri- bution and filtration is, in any case, defective; and how " aqueducts larger than Rome ever contemplated " must be undertaken for the c...ity whose size and whose wealth Rome itself never approached. How, then, in the face of these new needs, can the metro- polis bo asked to pay thirty-three millions sterling for the obsolete plant which has already yielded its owners such an excellent return for their outlay ?
"But Parliament," continued Sir W. Harcourt's Committee, " is not unequal to redress such mischiefs to the public interests. The manner in which the gas companies have been dealt with by Parliament may be referred to in illustration of the methods by which a remedy for such a state of things may be effectually provided." For, be it always remem- bered, the eight London water companies have never
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