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Mr. Thomas A. Campbell, President October 26, 1955 Page 3 in Southern Nevada is an arid area which cannot depend upon rain or snow for water. The subterranean reaches of the earth which lie beneath the Las Vegas Valley have treasured water from unknown sources. The water level has in the past ten years diminished so as to forewarn of a severe shortage in the future, and therefore the Legislature created the District so as to enable it to bring water from Lake Mead into the Valley and to cooperate with other Nevada agencies ’’for the purpose of conserving said waters for beneficial use within said district. " That the Legislature did not intend to curtail the broad discretionary powers of the District is evidenced by the clear and unam­biguous language therein contained to this effect: Sec. 19. This act shall in itself constitute complete authority for the doing of the things herein authorized to be done. The provisions of no other law, either general or local, except as provided in this act, shall apply to doing of the things herein authorized to be done, and no board, agency, bureau or official, other than the governing body of the district a-nd-fehe--publio service-•oeounieeien-Gf-the- State -of-Nevada, shall have any authority or jurisdiction over the doing of any of the acts herein authorized to be done * * *. The 1951 Legislature struck from Section 19 the phrase .’’and the public service commission of the State of Nevada", as lined out in the preceding paragraph, a strong indication that the District was not to be subject to any of the laws or regulations pertaining to public utilities as found in the act creating and setting forth the duties of the Public Service Commission (Sections 6100-6167 N .C .L . 1929 as amended). This view is further fortified by the fact that the District is given exclusive power under Section 16d of the act to establish water rates and charges, a power usually reserved to the Public Service Commission. This section reads in part, "The board shall from time to time establish reasonable rates and charges * * * and no board or commission other than the governing body of the district shall have authority to fix or supervise the making of such rates a nd charges." It is our view that the metering provision of the Public Service Commission Act is not applicable to the District. Section 6112 of