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Glasgow’s Water Supply System

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 15, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 33.

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Glasgow’s Water Supply System

— The city of Glasgow, Scotland, gets its main supply of water from Loch Katrine. To draw water from that beautiful lake, it was necessary to tunnel a mountain 600 feet below the summit for 2,325 yards. This tunnel was 8 feet in diameter. It was the first of a series of 70 tunnels, measuring in the aggregate 13 miles. The bogs were traversed by nearly four miles of vast iron pipes, and the rivers and valleys crossed by nine and a quarter miles of aqueducts. The total cost was $7,500,000, and the daily supply thus obtained was 50,000,000 gallons. These works were opened by Queen Victoria in 1859.