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    9k July Public Ssrvle* Caree* 01 fey Ife v a & a o e n t l e m a n t case ii#® i m y filth reference be the above-numbered case* you will recell that m the hearing as to adequacy of service the 0sarnie#Ion decided to hold the natter in abeyance until e report was received from the Utility lesrd without the issuance of an order with the understanding *that it (the Dae fegftft Dead ani water ftemgMiyI most prove to the f w i s s i * that the supply to residents of this Qommaalty must he adequate not only for the ms# of water for dosses* tie hut for business purpose*, and lawns sis©** See report of hearing as t© adequacy of water, pp. Ife8-lfe9« thereafter, m December 22, Iff#;* the Water Company submitted its report and letter Showing that they were prepared to produce just under three-and-a-isalf million fall ©ns per day additional, and that a three-aad-a «*half million fallens additional could fee maintained during emergency periods* further reference is -made to your letter of December 29, 19$#, to the undersigned in which you in­quire a# to whether further action fey the Commission la desired* thereafter, m January 2fe, 1951# we requested that the hearing then pending fee held la abeyance until such time as it’could fee determined that the Installing of additional pump* would insure Las fegaa of sufficient water supply* It now appears that the City is undergoing the same problems presented to the § m m X n m lm . In the above-numbered hearing* At a meeting last night the Mater Company ad* misted that the use of the Citisens of Das Vegas i n more than one million gallons per day lea© than there was a year ago, showing that conservation methods have definite­ly been put into effect, and the input, into- the sewer