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MR. GRIFFITH! I am in accord with your program of conservation - restrictio n and use - that has to be determined by the people. I want to know i f you w ill take the resp onsibility of pointing that out to us. We have a sub­stantial investment in this community, and we make a liv in g here, and someone has taken the resp on sib ility of te llin g us that we have reached the lim it, and its a tremendous resp on sib ility, and i t must be solved in some practical manner certainly by everyone interested, and you, as State Engineer, i f you w ill accept that resp on sib ility, i t w ill take a big load o ff our minds, I bring that up resp ectfu lly , c r MR, LEO McNAMEE* The questions and answers that have been made here kind of leave a pessim istic fe elin g in the minds of the members of this organiza­tion and of the community, and I don't think we should leave here with such a pessim istic view. For instance, Mr, Down's question was whether or not the Las Vegas Land & Water Company had made any plans fo r the bringing in of water to supply this community other than with underground water, I suppose he had in mind not only bringing in water from Mead Lake but going up into the mountains and running tunnels into "the mountains and piping the water down here to where i t oan be used, I don't purport to be an engineer or know about water engineering but I have had su fficie n t conversations and disoussions with engineers to be able to state that with the present development of underground water in this community, we have not as yet reached our maximum. However, i t would be uneconomical and in su fficie n t to go into the Charleston Mountains to bring water down here because that water already comes down here. That's the water that is the source of our underground supply, Now, I w ill state to you that i t is absolutely prohibitive fo r the Las Vegas Land & Water Company or fo r any other private individual to endeavor to get water from Mead Lake fo r this community. It w ill have to be done by someone who can finance i t . For instance, the Las Vegas Land & water Company saw the p o ssib ility of bringing Basic Magnesium Corporation into this community, especially after their scouts came out and looked i t over and made their surveys of this te rrito ry , but they didn't expect the Las Vegas Land 1 Water Company to furnish water necessary to accommodate a plant the size of Basic Magnesium, Now, fo r industries, ordinary industries, that may come into this place - - of course, before they come in, they w ill make their surveys to determine whether there is s u fficie n t water here fo r their uses. I f its an industry that w ill require as large an amount of water as Basic Magnesium require, they w ill be required to get their own water from the only available source, namely# Lake Mead, Now, the purpose of this meeting, or I might state, that the purpose of filin g the protests against a certain permit that was file d here, was th is : Las Vegas Land & Water Company, at the time of this protest, did have some trouble with its w ells. In May of this year, the daily average, or the daily consumption, was 8 m illion gallons, and that was greater than the maximum daily use of the year previous. The previous year - the maximum daily consumption in this City was 8 m illion gallons. That was during August and September - during the hot months. In May of this year, our consumption reached 8 m illion gallons. We d id n 't know what it was going to be during June and August* in fa c t, i t went up to 11 m illion gallons during July and August - 11 m illion gallons a day, and in May, when this protest was f i l e i , we deoided that i t was necessary to take some steps in order to make this community conservation conscious, especially in view of the fa ct that the State Engineer, some four or fiv e months ago, when he was here, addressed the Rotary Club and other Clubs, as to the necessity of conservation in this area. (12)