The Montevideo Waterworks Company, Ltd. was a British company, operating in

Montevideo Montevideo () is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Uruguay, largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2011 census, the city proper has a population of 1,319,108 (about one-third of the country's total population) in an area of . M ...

, Uruguay. Organized in 1879, its offices were at 61 Moorgate, London, England. The company was founded to take over a concession granted by the government of Uruguay for the construction of the necessary works for supplying the city with water derived from the

Santa Lucía River The Santa Lucía River ( es, Río Santa Lucía) is a river in Uruguay. Course The headwaters of the Santa Lucía River are in the Lavalleja department. For a large part of its course it forms the limit between the departments of Florida and San ...

. The point on that river at which the water was taken was from the city, and after being treated with aluminoferric salt, the water was filtered and pumped through a steel main to the service reservoirs, , on a rocky eminence at Las Piedras, at an elevation of about above the city. The company served nearly 35,000 houses, with the daily consumption averaging per capita. There were six settling reservoirs, nine sand filters, two reservoirs, and five distributing reservoirs. The total extent of water mains was about . The company assets were sold to the Uruguayan government in 1948.

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