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&MS Vegas - 3x0$ lo t h , Mr. Barley A* Harmon, f§ v, • Chairman, PoblSc *%rTie 0 OoEtaadoai on, :#'p. ? vl Osrsen CtiLty** ftaroAiu My dear Barleys % 1 i .. As W r a y have noticed from the Xaa Vegas paper, tn® City of Lam Vegas is facing a. rather serious eitmtion with regard to its water supply, and this condition has ex- isted for the past six weeks. At the present tine, we are jrat holding fits? own and this is doe to two- things? first, the cooperation m are reeel vlrsj fren the people here in response to om* fSttaak abatement 11afeed in fee newspaper, and eee eonfft ,c obnedciatuisoen so wf htihceh, wcoeo lm b « we&th© r which we have been enjoying for fee post few weehs* However, we have at least sixty days- of hot weather before as end it is reasonable to aostaae « t the water oon* amsptlon will increase during that tine, At the present tine an average of 3,778,(XX) gallons of enter par day is being eon- snwd by fee city, or 478 gallons per person per. day, based on a population of 8,000, fhere is no csection that a large percentage of this eater is not being pat to beneficial use. tet is being weed to spriiflclo the roof of bull dings, n s thru old-fas.-iioned cool in? systems uod thence into the sewer, or dpoawsns inthge tghruotutgehr ,hoses and out into fee street where it rtans Water is sold here on s flat—rate basis, as we are not permitted t© ns© meters under the law, asd there seemed to be no way to prohibit the useless waste of feia esocntiJLl commodity except by 13® a no of a city ordinance. Last year, files we were confronted with a water shortage, we promptly tooh the ratter up with the Jfeyor and City OoEndaal cners and in doe coir so an ordinance was passed, prohibiting oeelesa mat® of water and wife this assistance from the city officials wtoo twhoer ec aibtliez entos goeft 'fte’er ooiorrfmrr atthlet y.stumer without any hardship