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<br />, <br /> <br />from this source if further investigation proves it to be feasible. <br /> <br />Western United States Water Plan Study <br /> <br />Both weather modification and geothermal reclamation are among <br /> <br />possibilities which are being considered in the Western United States <br /> <br />Water Plan Study now underway. This study was authorized by the <br /> <br />Colorado River Basin Project Act of 1968 but it is only in the last <br /> <br />year that funds were made available to implement it. <br /> <br />The study will develop a sound, factual analysis of water resources <br /> <br />available in each river basin. Concurrently, potential requirements for <br /> <br />the next 50 years will be studied. We recognize the problems inherent <br /> <br />in a projection of what the West will be like and what the water needs <br /> <br />will be 50 years from now. <br /> <br />However, utilizing all the expert abilities and knowledge avail- <br /> <br />able, we believe we can do a pretty good job of defining within rea- <br /> <br />sonable limits what the West ought to be, what it might be and what <br /> <br />it likely will be and can be. We can define the envelope of prob- <br /> <br />abil i ties. <br />And we are getting all that expertise and local knowledgeability <br /> <br />together--not by building up a mammoth Bureau of Reclamation organi- <br /> <br />zation but by utilizing the talents of other Federal agencies and of <br /> <br />the eleven involved states. <br /> <br />\,e expect to go well beyond the ordinary inventory of basin needs <br /> <br />and resources for the pattern of growth is not static. \<ill there be <br /> <br />changes in land use? Will there be meaningful efforts to control and <br /> <br />curb the metropolitan sprawl which has resulted in a self inflicted <br /> <br />.~ <br /> <br />'31.1.8 <br /> <br />8 <br />