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|;-X. COPY Nov. 21, 1951 File: 4747-11-64 Honorable Robert A. Allen, Chairman Public Servioe Commissionof Nevada Carson City, Nevada. Case No. 1214 Dear Mr. Chairman: Referring to my letter of November 13, 1951 relative to application by ‘the Las Vegas Land and Water Company to amend certain rules and regulations as more particularly set forth In the application itself, I think it might be desirable to draw the Commission's attention, as the basis for an ex parte order, to certain testimony offered in Case No. 1207 before the Public Service Commission of Nevada, at a hearing on September 20th and 21st of I960, for thepurpose of bringing directly to the attention of the Commission at this time the serious water situation which existed then and the very probable increase in the seriousness of such water situation in the event something is not done by the inhabitants of the City of Las Vegas to curtail the abnormal waste and to reduce the abnormal use of water in that city. During the year 1950, there was produced from the water production facilities available to the Las Vegas Land and Water Company, approximately 3,559,000,000 gallons of water, a minor portion of which was used by the Union Pacific Railroad Company, the balance of which was consumed in the City of Las Vegas. lou will recall that during the months of July, August and September 1950, there was alleged to be a serious shortage of water and the shortage was the subject of the aforementioned hearing in September 1950. For the first ten months of 1951, there was produced from the water production facilities available to the Las Vegas Land and Water Company approximately 3,257,000,000 gallons of water and It is estimated that there will be produced approximately 3,800,000,000 gallons of water for the year 1951.