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Mr* Harmon: #3 July 10, 1935* oity ordimnca to prohibit such mate, and it doesiaH cost the guilty party any more Aether he uses a hundred gallons or ten thousand* *0 hare don# about all we can to keep abreast of the impending water shortage, and f am asking your kindly assistance.' either as Chairman of the Public Service Com-, mission, or in a personal m y , to forcibly direct to the attention of the city authorities the necessity for adopt­ing a city ordinance to prohibit waste of water. Last year the per capita consumption here during July and August reached over 500 gallons per day, and a similar unrestricted drain this year will exhaust the reservoir# I am enclosing copy of tho ©mergemy ordinance passed last year, the provisions of which did not harm any­one hut on the other hand avoided what threatened to he a had situation, a Messrs-# Knickerbocker and Bennett are coming up from Los Angeles ‘within a few days to accompany me before the c|ty officials for a candid discussion of conditions contributing to the water shortage here, and 1 will certain­ly appreciate it if you also rill handle the patter in the way you Judge to be best* H t h kindest- personal regards, I si Sincerely yours, wIltSe ’h. SfiAcfsi