Thursday, August 29, 2024

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Commencement of the Reservoir, in the Valley of Vehar, Island of Salsette, [India], 1856. 'The town...of Bombay, the population of which is estimated at about half a million, are so badly supplied with water that, when the annual rains are deficient in quantity, the place is subjected to all the horrors of drought...To remedy this wretched state of affairs...it has been resolved to form a vast reservoir in the island of Salsette, now joined to...Bombay by the railway viaduct. The valley of Kehar, embosomed in hills, is to be converted into a lake by means of embankments at its embouchure; and