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4 Las Vegas Review-Journal Thursday, July 3, 1952 IT SEEMS TO US QUESTIONS ANSWERED A. lette.r has been received from a Las Vegas property owner which we believe deserves an answer. The letter has to do with the water problem in the city-of Las Vegas and' H |ypical at. the lack of information most \ citizens have of the.: situation as it exists today. We are .not‘trying to -criti- llv6 writer of: the letter, because 'we realize that there are; thousands of residents of this section who are of the IIP! that the water supply in this valley is inexhaustible and .all that is necessary to secure more water is'to die more holes in the ground. g lii the letter, the resident asks two questions: 1) Why resources right here, in Las Vegas for W°inaluWater.inSteav of Ptphig im Colorado river water? ?omnh nZhnfCant We ha7e a report from an unprejudiced committee of experienced water men on this simple prob- lern before we are taxed for millions unnecessarily? P Tn tLare' 111 g°°l questions and should be apswered. ir li v»irS fP aCe there are no more resources’right here in Las Vegas for more water. In the second place there has eneprM r®port from an unprejudiced committee ofexperi- • Sm °n thlS Slmple problem’ and they all have wl? Vhh tthe same answer — the known underground VmhL+SpPplf lp,thls valley is not sufficient to supplfa Cp t° any greater size than now exists, and^nder the S’10 y£TmS’ 'upply wm *» «*«»«• JmI 'Sm ,bave been made by the state engineer’s office as well as by a staff of experts which was brdugh Wm fefl years ago in order that the unpreiXed £porf cvould be Provided for the people. That reporTis on ^file^at the chamber of commerce-office.^ ' iWf. tetter writer also says that she'feels “every citizen!' would vote yes on a bond issue to. buy.the Las Vegas wate?1 . company put m meters for conservation, buy some of the present developed wells that , are much larger ™han the owners can use and drill other wells at needed This would Wwk™* economically-0^ y gTee • the above outline Would solve the prob- km more sensibly and economically, except for one thing . erf isn t any more water available than has al Tests .have been made, every fime a big well has been developed in this area and •+ ?seriously ThmfmW hl t)je,wells arownd it are affected quite a y* means- that every, time a new well is^drillpd bfessr1: -,he then we wd! have to develop billions of gaionT pfr year and . he only place left to go is to Lake Mead P * We have resided, in Las Vegas for more than a quarter dtv Tf Eyvnd e?er! dollar of our investments In.this Thff ^ Las Vegas is to grow, then we heed more water > That is fundamental. Rather than risk the present suoolv j the only thing to do is to- go to Lake MeadPfS the water’1 the same as Los Angeles went , to Inyo county for its water’ to make certain the tremendous growth of that area. . . t|r a® taxes go, the bond issue wilbbeself-liauidat- payinToff the BjM fejHI Payments customers-* wifi not bVwf b+naS’ and tbe tax Payments of the-citizens Ttion b affected one whit, after the system is ip oper- jWafer. Rale Hike jPlea Back to PJC fh&kaattShM fa 42 per cent sought! . irates for Las VeJ^6 in Water/ mission granted bu* com-l 1 ,***< court tJ2kilzipcLsu,t m , the commission to ~lng to f°rce/ Wsan ra’te big. ffof testimony befor/ daVs I u Week, the firm’, »r£ GuiId this s flitted a mass ®,attorneys sub-1 , t° support their com ,wf'Vidence j - company was entitled nJl0n t h e I er rate increase'+Kd to a high-1 I / mitted by the ® than that per- /1 I Guild fniirm ? cornrnissioh. ' • Jutes on’the spbjlct ipR Stkt' , I case b.ack to the cL5-er2:ed the * 1 study. The iattil ^mission for mg, m the., ligM Previous find- gjdence upon receinf ^f