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1 1MCI-.V9" : HV : v , I , MS : § jj ' ! ‘ ' MS'11 2 Las Vegas Review-Journal Thursday, July 21, 19ft) Las Vegas Water‘Problem Has Counterpart in Reno With Las Vegas officials insisting the water shortage here during the hot weather is chargeable directly to waste, Reno and Sparks find themselves in virtually the same situation, according to a recent survey conducted by the Nevada State Journal. Al Folger, general manager of the Las Vegas Land and Water company, released figures Tues- Water Supply In Vegas Builds Up The Las Vegas water supply continued to .build up in reser- j voirs today but the nightly short­age between 6 and 10 p.m. con- i tinues, due now, however, to the ! excessive drain on the system I by sprinkling of lawns after 5 p.m. in accordance with Mayor E. W. Cragih’s edict. Daytime supply to hotels and downtown buildings was said to be normal and housewives who had reported on Monday and Tuesday of no water at all said the supply now is adequate, de- , spite dwindling pressure in the early evening. The prediction that the board of directors of the Las Vegas Valley Water district would come up with a solution to the annual summer water shortage here, before another year has gone by, was made this morning by Harry Miller, chairman of the district’s board of directors. “If there ever was any doubt in anybody’s mind as to the need for bringing water in from Lake Mead, the experience of the past few days should dissipate it en­tirely,” Miller declared. “There’s nothing we can do :i about it this summer, but our ? engineers are at work and by July 1950 we certainly should be in a position to meet the problem,” he said. J|j p | 1949: i day indicating a per capita use { here of 695 gallons every 24 hours. ! Reno’s Sierra Pacific Power ’ company says Reno is using water at the rate of 654 gallons per per­son per day while Sparks’ con- : sumption is 10 gallons per day higher. Folger’s figures show a total of 2,105 gallons per customer every 24 hours in Las Vegas, while the Reno figures are 2,287 gallons per service daily and Sparks con­sumption is 2,324 gallons per cus­tomer each day. Reno used 21,000,000 gallons j per day from June 10 to July 10 | while Las Vegas hit its peak this r week with 16,000,000. Reno’s top j figure to date was on July 11 when the customers tapped their » faucets for 26,230,000 gallons in a J 24-hour period. j Folger compared Las Vegas’ ! usage to Phoenix where climatic conditions are similar. Per capita ! use in the Arizona capital is 220 i gallons per day against Las Vegas | 695. ' ; Reno compares her use tq Boise, j 1 Idaho, similarly located, where ! the • average consumption is 150 | gallons per day per person as j compared to Reno’s 654. In Satl Lake City per capita consumption is 200 gallons per l day per year with a maximum of approximately 300 during the summer months. ------------o------------