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Thursday, August 16, 1951 Las Vegas Review-Journal 3 Water Service Normal After Pump Repair Work Water service was back to normal here this afternoon and homeowners and ranchers, ask­ed to discontinue sprinkling and irrigating last night, may re­sume normal usage, William Johnson, manager of the Las Vegas Land and Water com­pany, 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 I full operation again today. § i 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 PM Tuesday. All 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. This caused a serious deple­tion of the storage water, John­son stated. All of the pumps but two resumed operation when the power came back on, but with two pumps out of service a water shortage was bound to result in mid-evening, when water usage is at its peak. Yesterday there were 14,495,- 000 gallons of water .pumped compared to a normal pumpage of 16,500,000 gallons. ? ? ? ? ? ? Are You A Water W aster? Here’s the Las Vegas water picture: Amount of water pumped yesterday—14,495,000 gallons. Number of gallons used here per capita— approximately 580. Number of gallons used throughout nation per capita —approximately 200.