The cost of providing the Royal Engineers surveyors (Wilson and his team) was covered by the British Government's War Office.[11] The introduction to the survey stated that the ₤500 cost of the survey was funded by the wealthy Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts, whose primary motivation was to find better drinking water for those living in the city. However, the issue of “water relief” to the city was subsequently sidelined; in the words of Moscrop “the issue just vanishes,” and no improvements were made to the water supply until the end of the century.[7]