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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 three years; is that correct? A. Yes, Q, And yen and the members of the City Commission have endeavored te conserve It by these various methods which have been described here? A, That's right. Q. Is it your idea that the trouble that yen had at your theatre9 and which yon say had occurred at other places in the City, was the result of the channelling of the demand for water into a certain small period of the day? A. X think the trouble that we had and everybody else had Is the fact that they put restrictions on. In other words, restrictions were on until 5*00, and at 5*00 everybody turned the water on, and there just wasn't enough water te go around. Q. The result was that everybody started using water at 5*00 o'clock, A. That's right, Q. Wow, you would agree, would you net, that it is desir­able for the City to conserve water if the proper method can be found to do so? A, That's right. Q» X presume it's your feeling and the feeling of the City Commission, that the method used this year was an improper methe* A. Well, we tried it and it just didn't work, 0. You would agree, X believe, that there is water which is wasted in the City which could be utilised in the proper manner if a method of conserving it could be found, A* X have contended that for a lung time, and I think that whether the Water Company stays in business or the City them­selves or the Las Vegas Valley Water District, they are going to