Water Supply at Peshawar

At the commencement of this paper it was stated that the | Bara river crossed the Mahmaud tract obliquely towards the I north-east. In tlii3 course it flows about a mile to the south of the city, which, with cantonments, it will be remembered, occupies the north-eastern verge of that elevated tract. Its level at this part, however, is too low to admit of its water being drawn off for the use of the city or cantonments. Consequently, it has been necessary to go higher up the stream, to a spot some six or seven miles off, where a fort named after the river is planted right upon its bank, on the boundary line between British and independent territory. At this spot, immediately above and below the Bara fort, are drawn off' all the streams that supply the city and cantonments, as well as the Mahmaud and Ivhalil villages, many of which have no wells' with water both for domestic and agricultural purposes. These' streams are drawn off from both sides of the river through dee cuttings in either bank. Four are thus drawn off from the north bank within a few paces of each other. Three of them supply the Khalil lands and villages as far north as Regi, Lakarai, and Malazai. The fourth supplies the city and cantonments, as well as the lands and villages on its course between them and the river. This is the stream with which we are now concerned.