Following the failure of the rains, the Palestine Government announces that the present distribution of water in Jerusalem, which is now made every two days, is to be further reduced to once every four days.
As no further rains are now expected until the Autumn, the population are asked to observe a rigid economy in the use of water for domestic purposes.
The water shortage in Jerusalem has become a subject of serious grievance, both among the Jewish and Arab population. It is described as a source of perennial anxiety to the population of Jerusalem, who last year suffered serious hardship and were reduced at the end of the year to an insignificant water quota, distributed only once in six days. It is pointed out that though many solutions have been advanced for the settlement of the water problem, the Palestine Government persists in continuing its patch-work policy of constructing insignificant works or of improving old sources of supply, which hold out hope of permanent improvement.
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