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The history of common water supply in Singapore began with the construction of the MacRitchie Reservoir, which was built by the British in 1866. During the drought of 1902 the Water Department cut supply to just 2–3 hours per day.
The Quabbin Reservoir is the largest inland body of water in Massachusetts, United States, and was built between 1930 and 1939. Along with the Wachusett Reservoir, it is the primary water supply for Boston, 65 miles (105 km) to the east, and 40 other cities and towns in Greater Boston. The Quabbin also supplies water to three towns west of the ...
Water from the 412-billion-US-gallon (1.56 × 10 9 m 3) capacity Quabbin Reservoir flows through the Quabbin Aqueduct from the northeast side of the Quabbin, up a slope to the Ware River Diversion in South Barre, Massachusetts, down again to the Wachusett Reservoir, and then through a power station near the Oakdale section of West Boylston, Massachusetts.
A recent book about the construction of the reservoir, “Lost Towns of the Swift River Valley Drowned by the Quabbin,” by Elena Palladino, gives a human voice to the decades-long process that ...
The South End Reservoir is a small service reservoir located to the south of Singapore Changi Airport in Singapore. Rainfall from the runways and surrounding green areas is collected in the reservoir and used for fire-fighting drills and toilet flushing. The reservoir supplies 28–33% of the airport's water and saves the airport around S ...
878 ft (268 m) Reservoir. Creates. Quabbin Reservoir. The Goodnough Dike (actually a dam) is on the southeastern end of the Quabbin Reservoir, the largest water body in Massachusetts. It impounds the waters of Beaver Brook and therefore closes that exit to the Chicopee River Watershed. The Goodnough Dike is not as large as the Winsor Dam, but ...
Lower Peirce Reservoir (formerly called "Kallang River Reservoir" and "Peirce Reservoir") 6 ha. 2,800,000 [ 7] 1900-1912 [ 3] 2 [ 5] Source of the Kallang River, Singapore's longest river. Connects to Upper Thomson Road by a waterside trail. Lower Seletar Reservoir.
Both Singapore and Malaysia have a conflict over water supplies ever since Singapore was separated from Malaysia in 1965. [1] To ensure sufficient water supply in the rapidly modernising colonial city of Singapore during the 1900s. In 1910, the municipal leadership of Singapore and Sultan Ibrahim of the state and territories of Johor in ...