Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1918 — Louisville and Camp Taylor Menaced by Shortage of Water. [ARTICLE]

Louisville and Camp Taylor Menaced by Shortage of Water.

Louisville, Jan. 27. —Louisville and Camp Zachary Taylor, the national army cantonment here, were threatened tonight with a shortage of water as the result of the breakdown of a big thirty-million gallon pump at the plant of the Louisville Water Company. The breakdown is one that will require several days to repair and in the meantime the water supply for the cantonment will depend upon two pumps having a combined capacity of 54,000,000 gallons daily. The average danly consumption during the recent severe weather has been about 70,000,000 gallons. Tonight officials of the water company issued a warning that the practice of allowing faucets to run to prevent freezing must be stopped and other economies in the use of water effected if a water famine was to be averted.