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    (copy) ^ letterhead of STATE OF HEVADA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSIOH Carson City, Revada September 11, 1951 Hr. 1* I* Bennett, General Solicitor Union Pacific Railroad Company 422 West Sixth Street Los Angeles 14, California. Bear M. Bennetts We acknowledge the receipt of your letter to which you at­tached a second amendment to your application requesting authority to supplement and amend the rules and regulations of the Las Vegas Land and Water Company by adding Rule 9.5 (a) and (b). This Commission realises the seriousness of the water situ­ation in the Las Vegas area and fro® all available records it appears to us that the peak of available water supply in the Las Vegas artesian area has been reached. It appears that the water supply, which at one t:me was thought to be inexhaustible, has now become a restricted water supply and will further throt­tle the growth of Las Vegas unless the citizenry is made to realize that wastage of the available water supply must stop. As pointed out to your people by the State Engineer during the hearing of Case lo* 1207, an installation of pumps on cer­tain of your wells would afford only temporary relief. Again, the installation of such pumps can only further deplete the available artesian supply in the Las Vegas artesian basin. We think that the citizens of the Las Vegas area, now that they are confronted with the knowledge that an adequate supply of water pumped from the Colorado River to the Las Vegas area will ulti­mately cost them over ten million dollars, w i l l see the necessity of assisting in every way possible to conserve the presently available supply of water* Unless they do start to conserve im­mediately, any future growth of Las Vegas will be out of the question. Of course, the available water supply in Las Vegas artesian basin could be very much conserved and its use extended by the installation of meters. The next legislature might be more in­sympathy with such a move a s passing a law to permit the in stallation of meters when they know of the serious shortage of water in the Las Vegas area.