Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-02-15
WATER QUESTION NOW THE
 MOST TROUBLESOME ONE
High Water Service Will Give Relief to Certain parfs of the Ciy-Greater Demands Being Made On Water Service Now Than Ever Before-rac- tories Use An Enormous Amount of Water The Question of New Reservoir Must Soon Be Met

If the plan for high water service goes through, Dublin street will have, an ample supply of water long before It would have received the service un- der ordinary conditions, although the district needs city water and should nave had 1t years ago. But the arti- Gle is getting saarcer and the demand tor it IS on the increase and as a re- suit the upper end of Dublin street would have had to wait still longer if
 1t had not come in as a part of the new project on which Mir Cairns says $lOO,OOO will make start, and that's all. The report submitted by Mayor
 Elton and Engineer Cairns on the water question is the most interesting public document that demanded the attention of the city fathers since they grappled with the different reconl- mendations relative to the Branch water system. It deals with almost every phase of the situation except the enormous quantity of water usad ira recent years by the factories. which will soon amount to half the total con- sumption in the city and is destined to become So great in the near future that the present system would not be equal to 1t. While this is unquestion- ably healthfuI sign of the times. and every possible effort should be madas to keep pace with 1t, still 1t shows what the city has to meet on this item alone and ought to be sufficient to sat. isfy all reasonable beings that any movement looking towards reduction in the receipts from water should be discouraged. From now on water will cost the people Of this city more than ever before The service will have to be enlarged from time to time, and the only way it can be kept at price which will not make it luxury among the common people. Is by keep ing 1t well in hand and conducting it upon the most approved business methods.
 The commercial value of the East Mountain and Prospect reservoirs Is more apparent now than 1t was when the Branch system was first brought into use and Mayor Kilduff announced that the city had water to burn, and this will be more manifest ten or tif- teen years hence when, unless alI signs of the times fail, the demand for water will have more than doubled what it Is at the present time. TO meet this and the cost Of a new method of sewage disposal, which cannot be avoided much longer. to say nothing Of other things, such as street paving, parks and current expendi- lures. is something that has set rate payers thinking. and naturally people who have their stakes driven down SO deep in Waterbury that they can't root them up and get out in a hurry. are very much interested in all these projects and hope that those who have to do with such matters will legisIate so as to lay proportioned burdens on each. It is admitted that the little feI- low is carrying his share of the load some say he has more than his own. and to place any more upon him would simply put him out of business and leave him in far worse shape than he was at the outset