Sir JOHN BENTON remarked, with regard to the irrigation part Sir John of the scheme, that in the 35 years ending with 1912 he had ha8d many opportunities of acquainting himself with the conditions which existed in the waterlogged lands surrounding Anlritsar city, and he desired to endorse all that the Author had stated with regard to the insanitary conditions ; it might be added that in periods of heavy rainfall those conditions had obtained for the last 39 years. The sub-surface water was lowest just before the advent of the monsoon rains, at the end of June or early in July, when it was usually about 10 feet below ground-level. The average rainfall of the district was from 15 to 25 inches, but occasionally it was 30 inches or over, and only from 10 per cent. to 15 per cent. disappeared by surface discharge. The soil interstices being about 25 per cent., it followed that rainfall percolation amounting to 2.5 feet would raise sub-surface water nearly to ground-level. The percentages of distribution of canal head supply were approximately the following :-Benton.
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