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LAS VEGAS REVIEW JOURNAL 8-16-51 iWV Water Service Normal After Pump Repair W ork Water service W Q c , K a a It ?-» , • . f, •• service was . back to M here this afternoon and owners and ranchers, ask-discontinue sprinkling and ting last night, may re­sume normal usage, William Johnson, manager of the Las Vegas Land and Water com-pany, announced this morning. Crews have been working on the disabled pumps, which caused the water ? output lag since they were knocked out Tuesday night and they were in full operation again today. Only two pumps were dis­abled, Johnson said. They were put out of commission by a short circuit resulting from a power outage about 8:20 P M Tuesday. A ll of the pumps, used to replenish the water stores in the -company’s huge storage tank as they are depleted by the water users, were out for about 20, minutes during the power outage, it was reported. 1 , caused a serious deple-tio n ilf the storage water, John-son slated. A ll of the pumps but two '.resumed operation when the power, came back on, but with two flumps out of service a water shortage was bound to result in mid-evening when water usage is at it|fpeak. Yesterday there Were 14 495 - 000 gallons of wafer pumped compared to a normal pumpage of 16,500,000 gallons. P 8 ? ? ? ? ? * Here’s the Las Vegas water picture: Amount of water pumped yesterday—14,495,0M gallons. Number of galloi/f used here per capita— approximately 580. Number of gdflom. used throughout nation**per ‘.capita —approximately 200.