Tokyo Water Shortage

Tokyo Water Shortage (1964) Woman washing clothes by hand with water left over from a washing machine, which uses a lot of water. In the summer of 1964, Tokyo was facing a serious water shortage. The expected rainfall for Tokyo's water sources was 407 mm in May, June, and July, but the actual rainfall was 261 mm, 50 percent of the normal. A "rain-making" ceremony was held at the Ogouchi Shrine upstream of the Tama River, and a fourth limit of five hours of water supply per day was put in place on August 6. If the 200 water trucks of the Self-Defense Forces became the only source of water, some households dug wells at a cost of 200,000 yen. The drought of the Tokyo Olympics and the "Tokyo Desert" became known as the "drought of the Tokyo Olympics. A woman washes her clothes by hand using water that has been left in the washing machine because the machine uses a lot of water. Water is stored in the washing machine = Photographed by a member of the Publication Photography Department in Tokyo in August 1964 (1964).