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<br />These objectives are still very much in focus today. : We are growing
<br />so rapidly, this nation must develop its land and water resources on a
<br />much more sophisticated, more wise basis than we have ever had to in
<br />the past. This is one of the spin offs, I suspect, from the so-called
<br />affluent society in which we presently are living. Our expanding
<br />population and our standards of living have made it necessary that a
<br />wide range of social and economic factors be considered in water re-
<br />source development. It is going to be the purpose of this administration,
<br />insofar as I have anything to say about it, to use every tool in its com-
<br />mand to bring about and continue the orderly and wise development of
<br />this nati0n I s re sources.
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<br />Although, at first, water and land development in the west was zeroed
<br />in bringing land or water to arid regions, it soon became evident that
<br />there was much more to be obtained from water development than mere-
<br />ly bringing land in under cultivation. And I think Governor Rampton,
<br />speaking particularly from the western point of view, pointed it out
<br />very beautifully and very concisely, and I certainly subscribe to what
<br />he said. That in other areas, there are as many spin-off values, and
<br />we all know that the day of the single-purpose water resource project is
<br />as dead as the do-do bird, and that project must now embrace other
<br />purposes, such as flood control, navi gation, municipal and industrial
<br />water, pollution abatement, recreation, hydroelectric power, fish and
<br />wild life enhancement, low flow augmentation, and the othel' so-called
<br />multipurpose benefits with which you gentlemen are at least as familiar
<br />with as I, and on technical basis, a lot more.
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<br />In the early days of water development, the tests needed to determine
<br />the feasibility embraced, really, only two areas, economic feasibility
<br />and repayment. Now, this is in the west. Back in the east where we
<br />have flood control projects, you fellows don't have to worry abOut the
<br />repayment aspect of it. But out in the west we do. Technology, however,
<br />has advanced today to the point of dwarfing previous engineering accom-
<br />plishments, and speaking of engineering accomplishments, I saw some
<br />tunnels and diversions that were built in the very early days, 1915 and
<br />1916, and even before that, when engineering was not as nearly advanced
<br />as it is today. You wondered how they tunneled. They didn't have moles
<br />in those days, all they had was black powder, picks and shovels and
<br />horses, fresnoes, and scoops and still they went through the mountains
<br />with these wonderful diversion ditches and diversion tunnels and they
<br />are still operating. In fact, thirty or forty or fifty years later, they still
<br />have not used up their full capabilities, and so. they have, some of them
<br />have repaid the Federal investment many times over. Actual benefits
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