Water supplies

This file contains correspondence relating to:

• Water situation in Kuwait, particularly the reticence of the Kuwaiti Government to accept the offer of water from the Iraqi Government, instead continuing with their own plans for increasing distillation and conducting further surveys to locate fresh water. It also includes a translation of a statement by the Ministry of Electricity and Water on the water situation published in the Kuwait Official Gazette and minutes of a visit to Raudhatain water source by W P Cranston (1)
• Discussion of the proposals of Sir Alexander Gibb of the construction of a water channel between Iraq and Kuwait and how the current situation does not warrant their resurrection (2)
• Request from the Commercial Attaché of the Kuwait Embassy in Beirut Mr Ahmad Abdelwahed Al Ayoub to act as Agent for any British firm tendering for the distillation plant required by the Kuwait Ministry of Electricity and Water. It also includes a discussion on whether such tendering agents should be based within Kuwait (3)