Water-Power in the British Empire

Abstract

THE Water Power Committee of the Conjoint Board of Scientific Societies in its various reports has ably summarised the information on water-power available throughout the British Empire, and the Board of Trade Water-Power Resource Committee and Sub-Committee have dealt with the British Isles in a similar way. Canada has done more measuring of those resources than any other part of the Empire. Canadian water-powers in service, catalogued in Water Resources Paper Number 27, numbered, in 1920, 336 developed water-powers. Of these the summary, arranged by me under the different heights of falls, shows 43 were working with heads of water between 5 and 10 leet;