HC Deb 19 December 1972 vol 848 c337W
71. Mr. O'Halloran

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make a statement on the expected demands for water in the Greater London area during the next 10 years.

Mr. Eldon Griffiths

Surveys of needs are based on river basin and statutory water undertakers' areas rather than on local government boundaries; but, taking estimates for the Metropolitan Water Board as typical, the public water supply demand in the Greater London area might grow from about 485 million gallons a day in 1971 to about 530 million gallons a day in 1981.