ARTESIAN WATER PROBLEM. 
Artesian Water Problem. 
: ‘ if means of 
basins or areas w supplied with underground eee ate d by 
bores, and up which the water is forced above the surface 0 8 
natural pressure, 
The most important of these 
and it embraces ap 
New South Wales 
Territory. This b 
basins is the largest of its kind uias ene 
proximately half of Queensland, very considers Blerareas yin 
and South Australia, and a small portion of the } eae 
area of the order of 600,000 square , 
asin, which has an 
mane a WESTERN OES 
A sry 
MAP oF . 
AUSTRALIA oe 
SHOWING THE EXTENT. OF THE KNOW 
ARTESIAN BASINS 
MAP oF AUSTRALIA, SHO 
is kno 
Wn as the Great A 
3,500 bores, yiel 
ding a q 
Water. Thig Water, which 
Steat benefit in 
.7. MM watering large areas of country use 
or Providing Water along the 
wrt? the souree and supply is not commensurate 
ees and wil] Continue to play, in the deve 
Pitt i posse LDR, Jack, Professor 
of this | « ewe much for the information we 
the latter 72 824 the source of th 
‘e water, and in particular to the writings of 
Yr, to. wl ra 
of the matter,» 8° Teeent work 
-E. OR Pittman, « in,” Department of 
: pet a } an Artesian Basin, 
Mines, New South TERS tie oe Isa 
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