Salt Lake Tribune | 1902-09-14 | Page 17 | Water Supply Sufficient

WATER SUPPLY SUFFICIENT Superintendent Hines Says i Due Economy Is Practiced There Will Be No Danger of Shortage That there will be no serious deficit in the water supply during the remainder re-mainder of the Reason la the belief orS or-S pe nendent lines of the Waterworks Water-works department The report of his five inspectors I yesterday showed that thc Mayors proclamation restricting lawn and yard sprinkling Is being generally gen-erally observed a round of the city yesterday failing to develop a single offender While the supply ol water o In the creeks Is sllll low the volume of water allowed to collect In the ron crxolrs IB greater under the new economical nomical system There Is plenty of water for all legitimate le-gitimate purposes said Superintendent Superinten-dent Hines yesterday but there Is none to waLe Both Parleys creek and City creek are short more than a million gallons each day hut if I the water Is Used judiciously throughout thecity lhafdellclt will be very nearly offset While the amount of water consumed should be abut 157 gallons balons per capfta of the water tax payers it Is a fact that some of them use as high a6 500 gallons which Is n needless need-less waiUe to say the least The situation may become moro serious in the future If we do not gel heavier precipitation during the winter months This year Is the third dry season and the water supply gets shorter with every such year