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Carson City, hvtfi Nevada State Journal Harsh IS, 194? water miter bill passed m mnAwm Water Conservation Peclarod Ctoal by Sponsors The senate passed E, Frandsen homin' and 0. D. Baker* s muqh-debaied water motor bill today with only one senator, Ralph Latiin of Ohurahill county, opposing its passage* The measure provides that individuals may make complaints to the state public service commission about pereone they believe to be wasting water. The commission would then order a hearing, and under the bill would be m~ powered to install a water meter If it was found that the wastage complaint was valid. Both Locals, R., Washoe, and Baker, D., Clark, co-sponsors of the Mil, took the senate floor to urge its passage, pointing out that because of population require­ments only Las Vegas, Reno and Sparks would be affected. Loomis declared that Reno “has the largest per ita consumption of water of any city, town or jaunici- ity in the United States. * He said that per capita consumption of water in Reno “actually is about twice as heavy as that of the next heaviest user community*. The averse Reno resident, Loomis said, uses about 800 gallons of water annually. Loomis said that because of Reno's continuing growth that its storm drain and sewerage systems couldn’t be expanded 'fast enough to keep up with the water being wasted ©very day in the city.0 “You can’t get cooperation by pleas", Loomis declared* “You have to have a law hanging over th® heads of the people0. Baker emphasised that the bin “under m cir­cumstances would allow the indiscriminate installation of water meter® by the public utilities.’ “It protects us against the individual who uses ten times more water than he coeds”, Balter continued, point­ing out that only Las Vegas, Remo and Sparks would cobs under its provisions*