Water : the abiding challenge
original research and historical text by Su-Jane Hunt ; edited by F.B. Morony.

Publisher
Perth : Metropolitan Water Board | 1980.

Book Blurb
A history of Western Australia’s most essential service. Finding water to drink and disposing of waste water safely were challenges that imposed themselves from the first days of the Swan River Colony. Today, when efficient water management has become a huge, customer-owned business enterprise, those challenges are still fundamental. but they have been joined by new ones as the State looks to 2000 and beyond.

Summary
A volume description is copied from the dust jacket below.
"A History of Western Australias most essential service. Finding water to drink and disposing of waste water safely were challenges that imposed themselves from the first days of the Swan River Colony. Today, when efficient water management has become a huge, customer-owned business enterprise, those challenges are still fundamental. But they have been joined by new ones as the state looks to 2000 and beyond."

Notes
Water supply. Perth, 1848-1979 (ANB/PRECIS SIN 0444685)
Western Australia. Metropolitan Water Supply, Sewerage and Drainage Board.

Physical Description
viii, 127 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Dewey Call Number
363.61 HUN
628.109941/1

Museum Call Number
XXX

ISBN
0724481966

Subjects
Water-supply - Western Australia - Perth Metropolitan Area - History.
Perth Metropolitan Area (W.A.)
Claisebrook Sewerage Treatment Works.
Burswood Island Sewerage Treatment Works.
Water-supply -- Western Australia -- Perth Metropolitan Area -- History.
Water-supply -- Western Australia -- Perth -- History.
Water supply. Perth, 1848-1979.
Water-supply -- Australia -- Western Australia.
Water-supply.
Perth -- Water-supply -- History.
u-at-we.
Perth (W.A.) -- Water-supply -- History.
Western Australia.

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