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Las Vegas Evening Review-Journal June 1, 1939 | Conservatiors of Water Is Ui’ged Today By Utility In Las Vegas Faced, with- an acute -water shortage which they declared might result seriously in the event of a had fire, officials, of the Las . Vegas Land & Water company today issued ah appeal to patropS thruout the. city to conserve all water possible dur­ing summer months. I ‘‘The sudden advent . of hot weather in the past three days, has placed a heavy drain on the water reserves of Las Vegas ” Walter R. Bracken, vide presi­dent and manager of the com­pany, said this• morning. 5 Hraap the past twenty-four hours, all the water produced from va­rious sources has been used in the city and over 500,000 gallons , drawn from the reservoir,” he |j continued. . - a . V/vV 8 S5 "We don’t want to adopt se­vere and unwelcome restrictions, and hope it will not be neces­sary,” Bracken, said, “but unless the waste is cut down to a min­imum We must act to protect.-j the - city from disaster.” He pointed to the fact that i . many water coolers are not ad- , justed properly— that excelsior ; coolers are flooded, destroying the efficiency of the cooler itself j and wasting water. He also urged j that those; usirig other types .of , coolers arrange to recapture the 1 water after once used, explain- | ing that this would not only con- i serve water, but in addition re­duce the temperature several de­grees lower than if water from the mains is continuously poured 1 thru. v p . ; - I :f “The emergency pump in the railroad yards has . now been \ placed in operation and the total i production from all sources; of !| . water is 6,750,0001gallons per day |: or 720 gallons. per person per |: day. w e , are; now using quite .a i little more -than .that? .and' it; is.| very plain this - cannot gp on in­definitely,” Bracken said.