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Las Vegas Review Jeurnal-July 28, 1950 {[Water Firm to be Called Upon to Explain Shortage The Las Vegas Land and W a -[ j ter company w ill be called upon '. I . to explain why it is not furnish- I ing sufficient water to meet the li & needs of the Las Vegas area a t] a meeting to be held next Mon-! * i day morning at 9 o’clock, C ityf i Manager Chet Shelly said thisS i morning. I Charles William s, member of] . | the Nevada public service com -1 iy mission, w ill conduct the investi-l '• gation in the meeting to which I the city commission and repre-| ]! sentatives of the water company | ((have been invited. “ The water company has a ; franchise to serve this area and j , j it’s high time somebody found ! !; out why they’re not doing so j satisfactorily,’’ Shelly explained. : “ The city feels it has respons- i , ibility in this matter and the ! I commission is determined to get I ; some action which w ill prevent | ! future water shortages of the I kind that this summer are (Wreaking so much havoc with the beautiful lawns of the com-m unity,” Shelly commented. Williams made a complete in­vestigation in Las Vegas a.year ago when the situation reached 1 emergency proportions. As a re­sult, of his report, the public j service commission subsequent-1 ly held a hearing here, similar 'to the one scheduled for next j Monday. A t this hearing_ rep­resentatives of the waiter com- * pay assured the irate users that preparations were already 1 j under way to provide an ample j supply for 1950. Shelly declared today; that the city board $ ’as in no mood to sit idly by anc}..see another and! perhaps more critical shortage | i develop' in 1951. “ W e’ve listened to excuses j and alibis' long enough,” -he j said. “ W e’re going to have plen- 1 ty of water to carry us through next ye.ar and the years that follow-or know the reason Why.! The city has de finitely' assumed that responsibility and will, see i it J through-. -.c:-1 ?'!! 8- :. £ W M . R M G 1 4 ,„„ Vegas Residents Praised for Conserving Wafer l. Las Vegas residents came in { for, a little praise .today when I city officials pointed out that the I recent lifting of w ater-use re- | striotions evidently is • working | out to the best interests of every- | one concerned. - 1 A t the same time, officials ex- I plained that the past five, days i m ay not have been a true test | of the water situation because I of recent storms that cut down | lawn watering to a great de- | g re e .- In any; case, a sample of re­sidents throughout the city re­ported that water pressure to their homes seemed to be “gOOd.” .. i City Manager Chet Shelley; I said that phone calls complain­ing of water shortage had stopped coming into his office. Bob Cooper, director of traffic at the police department, re­ported that he had only, received one call yesterday, and that con­cerned water wastage. | Both Cooper and Shelley said | that two special water officers fare checking only on water wast- I age and coolers without pumps. Shelley said that while restric-1 I tions are lifted until further no-1 ’ tice* the public still must c o n -; 1 serve 'water. “ If they don’t, and the w a te r' situation gets bad again,” Shel- ; ley reported, “ we’ll just have to tell police to enforce the" or- [ dinance.” Water company officials adopt­ed^ a wait-and-see attitude, ex-plaining that recent storms m ay have been the cause for the re­latively rosy water picture. . Th e y indicated that the next five 'd a ys would be a true test of the situation.