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CG: MR WH JOHNSON NOV. 21, 1951 Pile: 4747-11-64 Honorable Robert A* Allen, (SteLlrm&n Public Oervioe Commission of Nevada Carson City, Nevada Case No. 1214 Dear ir. Chairman! Referring to my letter of November 13, 1931 relative to application by the Lae Verms hand and tester Company to amend certain rules and regulations as more particularly set forth in the application Itself, X think it might be desirable to draw the Commission* e attention, as the basis for an ex parte order, to certain testimony offered In Cae® No. 1207 before" the Public lervtoe Commiselonof Nevada, at & hearing on September 20th and 21st of I960, for the purpose of brining1 directly to the attention of the Commission at this time the serious rnter situation vhloh esdeted then and the very prob­able increase in the seriousness of such voter situation In the event something is not done by the inhabitanta of the City of Las Vegas to curtail the abnormal vasts and to reduce the abnormal use of water in that city. Daring the year I960, there was produced from the mtsr production facilities available to the has Vegas Land and N&ter Company, approximately 3,559,000,000 gallons of water, a minor portion of which -me used by the tlnion Pacific Railroad Company, the balance of which me consumed in the City of has Vegas. You will recall that during the months of July, August and September 1930, there was alleged to be a serious shortage of mter and the shortage v&s the subject of the aforementioned hearing in September 1960. for the first ten months of 1931, there was produced from the water production facilities available to the Las Vegas Land and later Company apprexliaately 3,867,000,000 gallon® of ester and it is estimated that there will be'-produced approx­imately 3,000,000,000 gallons of water for the year 1951.