摘要：The year was 1873 and Singapore's wells had almost run dry. The lmpounding Reservoir (present-day MacRitchie Reservoir) on Thomson Road,a major source of potable water and completedsixyears earlier, failed to carry water to the town because water levels had dropped toextremely lowlevels.1Water was so scarce that the poor resorted to drinking filthy canal water, exacerbating the cholera epidemicthat killed at least 448 people that year.
