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Show Judge a. w. agee suggests k method by which waste of water may be prevented ; Editor, Standard: It has recently I. eon repeatedly stated through the p ess, that Ogden is using from two to three times as much watec par capita as is necessary, and no one, so far as 1 have observed, has disputed this proposition It it is a fact that twice as much witter is being used as is really necessary, one-half must be virtually vir-tually wasted, and it is little short I of a crime 10 waste water at such a time as this. j II is a simple and eas matter to j stop such waste, by installing meters j so lh:it t-very person will cet Jum what ! in sh.- p. is lor n 1 1 no more o f.ne is goinc to waste water II he will I be compelled to pay for all he v. , The present method oi charging according ac-cording lo the number of rooms in B j house, is about as unbusinesslike as j'ould be deised. Imagine a private j corporation furnishing gas and chare-ling, chare-ling, not according to the amount used, but according to the size of the house in which it is used' No honest person will object to paying a reasonable price for the amount of water h' at tually uses Only the persona who ,:r- i:-in? more than the pS fOI Wl ob ject to meters j If it is true that we are using twice as much watei as we really need, by I installing motors this waste will be stopped, and the present supply of water will be sufficient until ihe ciry shall attain a population of 70, which will be many years in the future. fu-ture. If the waste is not stopped, I! v. ill be necessary to construct another pipe line from the city wells to the reservoir, which will no doubt cost $200,000, or more If we had metr installed at this time, we would not need to bring lo the city more than one-hali' that which is now being brought down, and the other half could j be released to the farmers and would save many thousands of dollars in 0 rops. It is strange that people of good business sense will so lone tolerate J such unbusinesslike methods. 1 Is true that it will require some time and considerable money to install m ters, but that should not cause the continuance con-tinuance of the present wasteful melh-od. melh-od. Meters should be installed as rapidly rap-idly as possible, and in the meantime a lew "water hogs" should be arrested and severely punished A lew hea y fines or Jail sentences will greatly lessen, if not entirely stop the waste ol watei Besides the expense ol having hav-ing inspectors to try to catch parties who are violating the rules governing the use of water must be eery considerable, consid-erable, and yet no one appears to have been caughl. Private citizens, however, how-ever, declare that they know of daily-violations daily-violations of these rules If meters shall be installed they will (catch the water waster, at the same I time inflict punishment. Respectfully, ' (Signed) W AGEE 00 |