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* (b) The Company will make no new connections for water service to any domestic, commercial or industrial es­tablishment after JUne 1, 1953, unless application for such connection shall have been made to the Company prior to June 1, 1953, Ho such application shall be accepted unless such establishment is completed or under construction on June 1, 1953.” Applicant Company prays that Rule 9.5 should become opera­tive with respect to new extensions and connections on June 1, 1953# and in support of its application it alleges that its sole source of water supply is from an underground basin under­lying the territory Immediately adjacent to the City of Las Vegas, which it believes is fed by precipitation falling on the mountain ranges surrounding the basin in the form of snow which melts and percolates into the sands and gravel of the water basini. that the average daily consumption per capita in the City of Las Vegas is greatly in excess of the consumption in other cities of comparable conditions? that one of the evi­dences of the excessive uses of water in the City of Las Vegas is that the average daily flow through the sewage disposal plant in 1952 was in excess of 6,000,000 gallons? that applic­ant is advised that during the year 1952 approximately 600 new residential homes were constructed and at the present time there is proposed construction of approximately 695 additional homes? that a large amount of property has been acquired by subdlvlders for extensions of their present subdivision or the construction of new subdivisionq&ith probable home construction of 1500 homes during the coming year over and above described? -2-