WSP09067

• File Number: 8030
• Description: Section D General Correspondence-Other Organizations
• State: CO
• Basin: Statewide
• Date: 7/1/1972
• Author: USWRC
• Title: US Water Resources Council - Proposed Principles and Standards - Summary Analysis
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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"1 recommend then that you return to the draft of the
standards and criteria that was prepared by the Council's task
force and staff and approve it. "

Dr. Laurence R. Jahn, Wildlife Management Institute

"The system of multiple accounts adds needed objectives
to the single objective of enhancing national economic efficiency.
The proposal is a spendid move in the right direction. But, far
more emphasis must be given to the specific procedures and ways
the new accounts are to be used. "

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" . . top priority. rather than secondary attention. in
planning, construction and maintenance [should] be given to the
functioning ecosystems of the resource base which, collectively.
constitute the life support systems for all living matter. includ-
ing man.

"Conditions are rapidly changing as the human population
increases and concentrates in certain localities. often damaging
resources and causing disfunctioning of vital ecosystems.
Stability and health of the ecosystems must be given top priority
attention in national and state development policies. "

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"The guiding principle should be to avoid irreversible
changes, such as driving species to extinction, and to maintain
diversity of ecosystems and their associated species. Use of
this approach means that planned developments of water and land
must be consistent with ecosystem functioning, not inconsistent
or in conflict with it. "

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"Procedures spelled out and applied according to Senate
Document 97 have clearly demonstrated the development
inadequacies and abuses that have been permitted. The proposed
principles and standards could help insure use of much sounder
procedures for planning water and related land resources if