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<br />-3- <br /> <br />--..- --..- <br /> <br /> <br />I~ <br /> <br />~~i0~~~~f~i <br />0.:::'":./-;."'.:' <br /> <br />: 00275'] <br /> <br />KEYNOTE ADDRESS <br /> <br />by <br /> <br />Honorable Calvin L. Rampton <br /> <br />Mr. Caulfield, Mr. Secretary, and gentlemen. I would like to add my <br />welcome to that of General Rich and Mayor Lee. We are very pleased <br />to have you select Salt Lake City as the city of your meeting, and I <br />think probably no more appropriate site could be selected because, as <br />you are all aware, our water is tremendously important; in fact, it <br />may be called the blood of the earth in most of the states from which <br />you come. This is particularly true here in Utah. We are situated <br />here in what was once a rather hostile environment with a forbidding <br />near-desert terrain. The Western Empire of today was established <br />as a direct result of the development of our limited water resources. <br />No matter where you look in this area, the entire social and economic <br />structure is tied to water. <br /> <br />While water has been the resource which is more often cited for the <br />growth of such southwestern cities as Los Angeles--water, by the way, <br />which collected in our rnountain.s and flowed down through.the Colorado <br />River--tothe Southwest. Water, or the lack of it, is the most limiting <br />factor in the economic development of nearly all of the states in the <br />West. <br /> <br />Utah's water problems generally involve the need for more and better <br />water conservation. I might add that such water resources planning is <br />not new to us here in Utah. Modern planning, however, is of necessity <br />somewhat different. Regional planning is vital because most of our <br />water resources are of a regional nature. Thus, we must concede that <br />water problems are much broader than the state boundary. <br /> <br /> <br />The federal Water Resources Planning Act recognizes the need for <br />regional water resources planning and has established a program of <br />basin studies, commonly referred to as framework studies. The <br />individual states participate with the corresponding agencies of the <br />federal government. <br /> <br />I <br />~i;;~(~lf <br /> <br />The Western Governors' Conference, which is composed of thirteen <br />western states, created the Western States Water Council as a means <br />of coordinating the activities of the West, in regard to the conservation <br />and uses of our water resources. <br /> <br />~+":,;~':_'_:~'/,:: <br />";~':\:;;'-:~~.:J: <br /> <br />';{~:'~f: <br /> <br />:":_--'.~:-"..~:;"-',,:.: <br />J;;.: ~__~""_' <br /> <br />