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by ~:~~ ,t~::.i:~.":;:;; I t~:~<-1/';; .:... "';.; ~~fu:~:;~~ '--'-oS.'_-;;"_ ~~/:~t;:/.~-/ 00277:] -32- Discussion Fred E. Morr ;g~:~.:/-:~.:;~ I appreciate this opportunity to appear before you today. . There are increasing needs for the states and federal agencies involved in water management to get together with cooperating interests to discuss pro- blems, generate thoughts, develop understandings, and get capsule reports of major situations.. Both the Water Resources Council and the. Interstate Conference on Water Problems are to be congratulated for arl'anging such a conference as this, your third; and fitting occasion, perhaps, to compliment Henry Caulfield for the quality of his director- ship of the Water Resources Council. .__.;;.... ~J%'~~l~ ~:-;: ~,.:---::.::' I will certainly not presume to stand before you to discus.s with any finality a subject of such vastness as the sea, whose very size and impor- tance to mankind is awesome. But, I must admit that I have had some little time to peruse, if not study the report "Our Nation and the Sea". t~~~~i~j d?1y~ ~;~/~~(:-~~; ~t<~~:'~:~'::;:.. '-,".:'>" ::: .>:;' . :".: ~.'~~ . As vice chairman of thE" Great Lakes Basin Commission, I am afforded a'rare partnership with .seven other Great Lakes states. As their repre-' sentative, I must report that time 4as not permitted the states to give. adequate review, nor to develop a consensus of ideas, opinions, or comments on the report. However, because of the general structure and purpose of the Great Lakes Basin Commission, I feel we can look at the report as it concerns that relationship. "Our Nation and the Sea" is a stimulating report. It is excellent. It is well written, and it certainly has broad coverage. Because this subject is so vital to all of us, I would hope that the report might be.condensed, embellished with further illustrations, and printed into a low-cost paper- back edition for mOre widespread distribution. To do something about a problem, people. have to understand it, discuss it, mold it, and then do something about it. Communication, then, is very important. ,-,,-'-':-'. As I read the report, it quite obviously deals with two major water areas - the oceans and the Great Lakes. So much of the original intent of the marine study was pointed toward the oceans, that the major study.and its proposals are significantly aimed at .them. Fitting such a concept equally to the Great Lakes, where the geographic, physical, political, and institutional arrange- ments are so sharply different, will bring the total report under fuller scrutiny and debate. 11E1;.ll~IIr~_i~~ir,j /':....::/~;.;.;::-,~ ....,.. .