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CC: Mr. Wm. Reinterdt Nov. 21, 1961 m e s 4747-11-64 Honorable Robert A. Allen, Chairman Public Henrioe Commission o f Nevada Carson City, Nevada Case No. 1214 Dear Mr. Chairman: Referring to my letter of November IS, 1961 relative to application by the Lae Vegae hand and Water Company to amend certain rules and regulations as more particularly set forth in the application itself, I think it might be desirable to draw the Commission* e attention, as the basis for an ex parte order, to certain testimony offered in Case No. 1207 before the Public Service Commission of Nevada, at a hearing on September 20th and 21st of I960, for the purpose of bringing directly to the attention of.the Commission at this time the serious water situation which existed then and the very prob­able increase in the seriousness of such water situation in the event some tiling is not done by the inhabitants of the City of Las Vegas to curtail the abnormal waste and to reduce the abnormal use of water in that city. During the year 1960, there was produced from the water production facilities available to the Lae Vegas Land and Water Company, approximately 3,669,000,000 gallons of water, a minor portion of which was used by the Union Pacific Railroad Company, the balance of whleh was consumed in the City of Las Vegas. Xou will recall that during the months of duly, August and September i960, there was alleged to he a serious shortage of water and the shortage was the subject of the aforementioned hearing in heptember 1950. Nor the first ten months of 1951, there was produced from the water production facilities available to the Las Vegas Land and Water Company approximately 3,267,000,000 gallons of water and it is estimated that there will be produced approx­imately 3,800,000,000 gallons of water for the year 1961,