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Show METALLIC DEPOSITS CHOKE WATER PIPES City of Nottingham and Neighbor Towns Threatened With Paucity in Water Supply. Special Cable to The Tribune. LONDON, May 9. Nottingham and other cities face a serious water famine. The water of the Derwent valley reservoirs, reser-voirs, from which supplies are drawn, is speedily choking up all iron pipes and boilers with metallic deposits. A committee of the Nottingham city council has reported that tlie continued use of the Derwent water would in a short time completely choke all the Iron pipes in the city. Sheffield, which draws its water from the same source, is not affected, because for thirty years the council has insisted on lead or copper pipes being Installed. Leicester and Derby, which use galvanized galvan-ized iron pipes, are in the same position as Nottingham, where the people are already al-ready reverting to the old system of pumping wafer from sandstone wells. To replace all of tlie Iron pipes and hollers would cost thousands of pounds. The Derwent valley water system, which supplies, besides the four cities named, most of the towns in Nottinghamshire Nottingham-shire a nd Derh vsh! re, has al read y cost $85,000,000 and is little more than half completed. |