STORAGE AND CONVEYANCE OF WATER.—QUESTION.

HC Deb 09 February 1877 vol 232 c129

MR. WHALLEY

asked the President of the Local Government Board, Whether it is his intention to introduce a Bill for affording facilities for the storage and conveyance of water, pursuant to the recommendation of the Commission in their Sixth Report on the Pollution of Rivers and Domestic Water Supply?

MR. SCLATER-BOOTH

I presume, Sir, the recommendation to which the hon. Gentleman alludes is that the owners of land should be permitted to include the cost of village water supply among those expenses which they are now enabled to charge on their estates, with consent of the Improvement Commissioners. Taken by itself this would hardly be for me to initiate, but taken in connection with another well-known recommendation of the Sanitary Commission, it would become of considerable importance. Having regard, however, to the amendments in the law which were effected in the Public Health Act of 1875, I am not prepared at this moment to introduce any Bill having the limited object suggested by the hon. Gentleman.