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of great reservoirs, the object of which is to provide 

 a great storage of water so as to utilise the heavy 

 rainfall in the Western Ghats for supplying the 

 deficiency of the Eastern plains and valleys. (Some 

 such reservoirs already exist.) These schemes would 

 probably have been begun and some of them com- 

 pleted long ago, but in India it is always a question 

 of finance, and these schemes are waiting until the 

 money is found to put them into execution. 



In a paper recently read to the East India 

 Association by Mr. Arthur T. Arnall, Mem. Inst. 

 C.E., A.M.I.E.E., etc., an account is given of the 

 great works completed on the Tata hydro-electric 

 scheme, and also the works in progress and con- 

 templated to complete that scheme, which are as 

 follows : Bhiopuri 65,000 horse-power, Khopoli 

 50,000 horse-power, Bhira 150,000 horse-power, 

 Ambavli 400,000 horse-power, Kumbharli 250,000 

 horse-power. These are all on the high Western 

 Ghats in a district where the annual rainfall is from 

 100 inches up to 250 inches. 



These Tata installations are on an entirely new 

 principle that is to say, new as regards very large 

 installations. They are not founded on the flow 

 of a river running in its usual course, or on the flow 

 of a river coming from a lake which makes a natural 

 reservoir, but on artificial reservoirs on high moun- 

 tains where there is a very heavy rainfall, from 

 100 inches up to 250 inches a year, nearly all falling 

 in about three months, so that there is an enormous fall 

 of water during that brief period, and afterwards there 



