Abstract

OBTAINING adequate water supplies for the rapidly increasing population in metropolitan fringe areas is a pressing problem. Usually the city is not anxious, and frequently not able, to extend its facilities beyond its boundaries. Existing demands placed upon the utilities by city residents often absorb the total output and on some occasions overburden the systems. New utility construction barely keeps ahead of increasing demand. If the city does not finance the construction of facilities for suburban dwellers, however, there is a possibility that the fringe area will incorporate itself as a separate city for the purpose of obtaining municipal services, especially water, and thus interfere with the master plan of the central city which may call for future annexation of the area. Even if

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