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[^AMMETER PLAN DRAFTED BY SENATORS C '.> ' '• - F .Bill Would Empower; State Agency To Act • CARSON CITY, March 4. <0;R> — Senators E. Frandsen Loomis, R., Washoe, and C. D. Baker, D., dark," introduced a bill today designed to halt the wasting of water by indi­viduals. Under terms of their measure, in­troduced in the senate and referred to the public health committee, any authority or - individual would be empowered to make a complaint iso the state public service commission about any person believed to be wasting water, The commission would then be authorized to set a hearing and af­ter such hearing, require installa­tion of a water meter and establish a rate for such a meter if it was found that that person complained about was wasting water. f§ ,. Loomis pointed out that only one individual could be affected at a time, under provisions of the meas­ure. He emphasized that the bill is not aimed at providing water meters, or even forcing their use,, on an En­tire community but was introduced! to try to “keep some people from wasting water despite attempt# made by their neighbors and by city and county authorities to discour­age them from such practices.” , “Here in Repo, for example, the bill could not be construed possibly as leading to installation of wate* meters in this city—to do that, you have to have signed complaints pre­sented to the public service commis­sion protesting water use practices of every single resident of Reno.” The subject of water meters and their use in large cities was the sub­ject of a heated controversy which! went as far as the state's courts several years ago. UWMJ