Trucial States: water resources

This file contains correspondence relating to:

• 'Trucial States Development Water Resources Survey, Progress Report for December, 1965' from Sir William Halcrow & Partners Limited to the Director of the Trucial States Development Office
• Acting Director of the Trucial States Council, C B Kendall's authorisation of the Chief Resident Engineer of Halcrow, N G Allen to purchase a suitable drilling rig for the Council
• Planned visit by Professor Howard Bowen-Jones of Durham University and Dr Stanley Gordon Willimott of the universities of Reading and Southampton to parts of Jordan and the possibility of inviting them to assess the potential for agricultural development at the locations indicated by Halcrow, namely at Diqdaqah, Madam and Gharif
• Offer by Air Commodore E G L Millington through the Middle East Development Division to organise an aerial survey to assist the Trucial Council's water resources survey; and acknowledgement of the receipt of aerial photographs of the plain, foothills and sands
• Proposals of Sayyed Mohammad Abdul Aziz on the matter of agricultural extension
• Meetings held between the Trucial States Office and Halcrow on 28 and 30 April 1965
• Preliminary suggestions for the improvements to the cisterns of the Habus and Shihuh tribesmen under the Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah Sheikh Saqr Bin Mohammad Al Qasimi
• Request by the Ruler of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan for advice on the region of Buraimi from Andrew Kopec of the Trucial States Water Resources Survey; the extension of the Trucial States Development Fund Water Resources Survey to the entire territory of Abu Dhabi provided that Sheikh Zayed agrees to meet additional expenses; a letter from Kendall to Sheikh Zayed about the departure of two engineers for Buraimi
• 'Trucial States Development Water Resources Survey Progress Report', September 1966
• Request by the Canadian consultants Cansult for aerial photographs by the RAF to identify potential sources of rock-fill for the construction of a deep-water harbour at Abu Dhabi
• 'Trucial States Development Water Resources Survey Progress Report for October 1966'
• Inclusion of Hamriya [Hamriyah] in the extension of the water supply to Umm Al Quwain
• 'The Application of Geophysics to Water Resources Survey in the Trucial States of Eastern Arabia' by R B Evans for the Institute of Geological Sciences, Overseas Division, London, 1966
• 'Trucial States Development Water Resources Survey Progress Report for November 1966'