Southend Waterworks Act 1924
WHEREAS the Southend Waterworks Company (in this Act called "the Company") are by the Southend Waterworks Acts 1879 to 1921 authorised to construct and maintain waterworks and to supply water within the limits in the county of Essex thereby prescribed:

And whereas the water now available to the Company is inadequate to meet the constantly growing demand for water within their limits of supply and it is expedient that in order to afford an additional supply within the said limits the Company ...