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Show f; WATER USERS' SIDE OF THE QUESTION jar Tribune: I read with a smile fditorlal in the issue of oven date 4, i,t"Tiie TVaste of Water." "We are igto much of this sort of thing of gj irid while I would not excuse or ofe' K the act of those who wasto wa- tla 'gammer or winter. I wish to call ill hi attention to tho fact that thero lEfls to aides to this water question. t' wrly spring we arc served with IK br the use of water for the whole Htsi through, and accompanying each ,Jrf; lithe threat that If the amount is ah !l wlth,n a certaln tlmQ the fiup" iaj'u :vater will be cut off. Charge in this bill Is based upon xpectatlon that it covers a aufll-ee.4 aufll-ee.4 ''quantity of water to sprinkle a it 'tteg 'area of lawn twice each day. and iafe j,pald tho bill, one supposes he , wight that quantity and paid for rlVllogc of use of same. 3 wi' ba3 the tlrac exPll'ca ln which ' : bills should be paid, or the threat -.t dout, ere we receive a notice that ioaii enot to be allowed to sprinkle the : --.J ,more than once per day. with Jt ! threats in case this order is dls- il M iy Poplc feel that, having paid trattaa ( nc of water to snrlnkle a lawn , :3a!ay, they are entitled to it, and ' ' $w- 's a l snarD Practice on tlie f,rd)Bf tho city to take pay for some- - wf;it U unwilling or unable to fur-tun fur-tun icd thl3 being the feeling, many , jA if they are justlfled in helping ptn elves. :tf! e ENTITLED TO IT. t ffo to a merchant and buy goods SI & i, paying therofor, is he not bound f'aad honesty to deliver to me the t 'purchased? And the city having Miif for water for sprinkling tZtl W daJ' can ,c restrict Its use to . 5 1 Wr day and withhold the dlffcr-t: dlffcr-t: n Pnca which should be made for i fferenee In service? ( I am going to make a statement ' I presume will bo denied, and yet ifttiBfled It Is true. - re are Borne of our citizens who, y : IhsuEe has boen restricted to once If? ; J, continue to uho it twlco, and uf sjnqulry it is found that they gained permission for such use, or it la tacitly winked at. Last' summer my lawn was suffering for want of water. I went to tho wa-tcrmaster wa-tcrmaster and telling him of the fact, asked If I might be permitted 'to sprinkle sprin-kle twice each day for a few days to revive re-vive the famishing grass, and this wus denied me. I told him that some of my neighbors were using water twice per day, and openly, and ho asked, "Who are they?" I am not informing upon others, and am not a tale-bcnrer, consc-quenUy consc-quenUy wouJd not give him names, but : I want the same service as my neighbor neigh-bor Is getting, and no more. There should be no "pull" ln this matter of water service, but all should be treated alike. MORNING AND EVENING. There Is another point In the sprinkling of a lawn but once a day that those who- are unacquainted un-acquainted with the facts do not understand tho nicety of, and yet the manner in which the restriction is enforced works a hardship to at least one-half of the users of water for that purpose. When tho time is reduced those ln a certain district aro required .v i.o-w ii lauiiiunjo, luinu luum: living in other districts are permitted to sprinkle sprin-kle .evenings, and this policy Is pursued year after year. .Now. anybody who will give this matter mat-ter a moment's thought will realize, and admit, that water thrown upon a lawn in the morning, after the sun Is up, does little good, for it is soon dried off and evaporated, while tho same quantity of water in the evening will remain and soak into the ground. Hence, I submit, wouldn't It be fair play to turn about? Permit (?) those who are required to- sprinkle ln the morning one year to sprinkle evenings the next, and the evening user take morning for sprinkling? If any of your readers care to make a mental note of this, they will observe noxt summer that the lawns having the evening service ser-vice will appear fresher and more thrifty than those that are watered mornings. If worth your while, kindly give this a place ln your paper, ns It may result in benefit to others as well as ono who is an OLD SUBSCRIBER. Salt Lake City, Jan. 2Sth. |