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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 135. t© go back a little ways and relate a little more history. As soon as we realised that there was an overdraft; that is, that the amount of water being taken from the ground, exceeded a safe yield, we immediately became quite concerned, and we took it up with the people here in Las Vegas, telling them in different ways exactly the situation—that the safe yield was being exceeded in the Valley, and that the law provided,of course, that when a safe yield has been reached, we should restrict drilling, re­strict the development of water to conform. Row, we realized, ©f course, and we pointed out to the people here, that if we immediately Issued a ruling that would restrict any further drilling in the Valley, that, of course, further development in the area would be restricted as of that time. We told the people that if they would make plans to supplement the exist­ing supply, that we would continue to allow the further develop­ment of ground water, which would be, of course, borrowing from storage to some extent until a supplemental supply could be brought in, and that resulted in the 19*+7 legislation which pro­vided for the creation of a water district in this area. that legislation at the request of Senator Raker, and as 1 say, it was enacted in 19^7. Row, the work of creating a district and making the plans, etc., has not gone as fast as we would like to see it go but there has been progress made during the years, and it now looks that things are getting done so that In a matter of a couple of years, this situation will be relieved Q* Well, if it isn't relieved, do you feel that the State