ESTIMATED PER CAPITA WATER CONSUMPTION
On the basis of experience and engineering judgment, estimates
were made of the amounts of water needed each day for each man, It
was assumed that personnel quartered in aluminum barracks would use
50 gallons of brackish water and 50 gallons of distilled water per man
per day and that those quartered in tents would use 50 gallons of
brackish water and 35 gallons of distilled water per day. These as~
sumptions could not be checked because no comparable installations had
been erected,

ESTIMATED TOTAL RAW WATER SUPPLY ALLOWANCES
It requires two gallons of brackish water to produce one gallon
of distilled water, one half of the water supplied to the still being

lost in the distillation process. Therefore an additional amount of
raw water sequal to the amount of distilled water had to be taken into
the system to provide for the intake requirements of the stills. In
addition, the generation of electric power required a relatively large
amount of water (measured by percentage of total water requirements)
for cooling purposes.
(The details of power generation and cooling

for power generation equipment are discussed in Chapter 5.15 of this

volume,) Water requirements for cooling varied with the fluctuations
of generation of power, A flat allowance of 70 gpm for each generator
installed, less one, was made for this requirement. Consequently, raw
water intakes and pumping stations were required to handle the total of
raw water domestic use, plus two times the distilled water use, plus
the electric power generation cooling water,

WATERWORKS SYSTEM DESIGN
In general, the hydraulic characteristics of the design of all

island waterworks systems were similar,

The detailed design and ar-

rangement of the component parts varied in conformity with the particular requirements for each island, with little if any modification
of the functions of these component parts, Each system consisted of
the following integrated features:
1.

The raw water intake took raw brackish or salt water into the
system for distribution as salt water and for conversion to
fresh water,

2,

The salt water pumping station placed the salt water supply

3.

system under pressure by discharging salt water through a
pipe or pipe network to elevated storage.
The salt water distribution system received the discharge
from the salt water pumping station and transferred this

water to the elevated storage tank, simultaneously distributing salt water through outlets or service connections to
facilities requiring this service. Fire hydrants for operation in conjunction with mobile fire pumper apparatus were

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