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<br /> <br />Other communities are expected to meet most of their water needs <br />through 1980 by continued development of ground-water resources. <br /> <br />Municipal and industrial water withdrawal requirements are expected <br />to increase by about 2 million acre-feet between 1981 and 2020. <br /> <br />The major municipal water de-velopment would be participation in a <br />regional water importation program. The fully developed facilities pro- <br />vided by the Southern Nevada Water Project will meet the water needs of <br />Las Vegas Valley until about year 2000. A lOO-million gallon-per-day <br />desalination plant is included in the framework program for treatment of <br />municipal wastes in Clark County in the 1981 to 2000 time frame, after <br />which a new source of water supply will be needed. Desalting facilities <br />having capacities totaling 123 million gallons per day are included in <br />the program to treat brackish ground water for municipal uses in several <br />communities. An import of 7,500 acre-feet from the San Juan River is <br />included to supply water for municipal uses in Gallup, New Mexico. <br />Multipurpose regulatory storage facilities in upstream areas would meet <br />the needs of many of the smaller communities. Continued development of <br />ground-water supplies, with desalting where necessary, will meet the <br />needs of most of the other small communities. <br /> <br />Recreation <br /> <br />Recreation needs of the Region are projected to increase from 144 <br />million recreation days in 1965 to 671 million recreation days (including <br />fishing and hunting) in 2020. Within the bounds of existing legal, <br />institutional, financial, and physical conditions, only about 42 percent <br />of these needs can be met. Satisfaction of the remaining 58 percent of <br />the needs will require elimination or modification of these constraints. <br /> <br />Water-based recreation needs will climb to 193 million recreation <br />days annually by 2020. Under the framework plan, maximum water augmen- <br />tation, development, and use will supply a large part of the water- <br />based recreation needs. <br /> <br />An increase of about 60,000 acres of non-Federal development will <br />be needed by year 2020 to satisfy recreation needs. <br /> <br />The single-purpose recreation program is essentially one of land <br />acquisition, recreation development, and operation, maintenance and <br />replacement of facilities. By the. year 1980, about $194 million for <br />development and acquisition will be required to meet total recreation <br />needs. Water-based recreation needs will total 43 million recreation <br />days by 1980 and will cost over $173 million for development and <br />acquisition. <br /> <br />The continuing (1981-2020) recreation program will require the <br />acquisition of 46,000 acres of land to satisfy projected needs. An <br />expenditure of $858 million will be required for acquisition and devel- <br />opment. <br /> <br />24 <br />