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probable that a power of 10,000,000 kilowatts is 

 as much as India may really require to use for a 

 great many years to come. The goldmines of Mysore 

 have been worked for a good many years by water- 

 power from the Cauvery Falls. Professor Shiv 

 Narayan quotes from the Preliminary Report on 

 Water-Power Resources of India and Burma, a table 

 (page 251) giving some account of the principal 

 hydraulic works and the hydro-electric installations 

 of India. This gives an account of fifteen of these 

 installations, and according to this table the capacity 

 of the plant installed at the Cauvery Falls is 22,650 

 electrical horse-power. This is the second largest 

 hydro-electric station in India, the largest being 

 that already mentioned, which supplies Bombay 

 with electric power. On pages 254 and 255 Professor 

 Shiv Narayan quotes again from the same report. 

 According to this the total hydro-electric plant 

 already installed in India is equal to 111,860 electric 

 horse-power, and the writer of the report gives a 

 table showing what he considers will be the probable 

 future water-power of India and Burma, amounting 

 in all to 1,774,000 electrical horse-power. I think 

 myself that the power developed in the future will 

 probably very greatly exceed this amount. 



It is impossible to separate the consideration of 

 the hydro-electric power stations of India, and the 

 consideration of irrigation of lands which do not 

 have sufficient rainfall or on which the rainfall 

 is precarious. Some of the Indian Government 

 engineers have prepared designs for the construction 



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