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Hon. Robert A. Allen j?age 5 of 500 gallons per day per consumer, It is obvious that the net? consumers for 1951 trill require an additional supply of 1,122,000 gallons per day. It must be remembered that the 500 gallon per day per consumer average is based on the yearly consideration of daily consumption. Obviously, suoh 500 gallon a day figure would be materially increased during such peak periods as vers hereinabove referred to where there vae a peak consumption of 18,000,000 gallons per day* From a consideration of the periods of tea ter short­ages in 1950 and the average consumption of water during the month of July 1951, it is obvious that the Water Company will have serious difficulty serving its present consumers. The Commission must realise the fact that the Water Company can not develop any additional sources of water and must continue to deplete its only present source namely, the underground basin in the las Vegas Valley. It will be recalled that Hr. Thomas W. Robinson, District Engineer, H.S. Geological Survey for the Ground Water Division, testified in.the hearing in Case Ho. 1207, that the underground source of water is recharged from rain and snow at the rate of approximately 50,000 to 55,000 acre feet per year. He further testified that since 1946 there has been an excess of withdrawal of water over the recharge of water in the Las Vegas Valley Water Basin. At Page 125 of the transcript of the above-mentioned hearing, Mr. Robinson testi­fied that the measured withdrawal for the year 1948 was 44,718 acre feet and In addition thereto there must be borne in mind an unmeasured withdrawal of approximately 5,000 to 8,000 acre feet. For the year 1949, he testified to a measured with­drawal of 34,456 sore feet to which must be added the above-mentioned unmeasured withdrawal. It is apparent from the testimony of Mr. Robinson, which was in part substantiated by the testimony of Mr. Hugh Shamberger, at that time Aset. State Engineer of the State of Nevada, that since 1946 there has been an overdraft of water from the water source available to the Water Company and the City of Las Ve^sis and that this situation has grown increasingly worse year by year. The foregoing overdraft of water from the Las Vegas Valley tfeter Basin will become increasingly worse instead of better. The Federal-State Cooperative Snow Surveys and Irrigation Water Forecasts for Nevada, which I obtained from