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<br />r''1~ ~ ~, <br />-' - .,. - ... <br /> <br />or national goals for agricultural production and related economic growth and <br />vitality. Therefore, purposeful water supply augmentation developments at <br />the local level should be investigated. These include weather or precipita- <br />tion modification (to the extent not already in practice as might be <br />reflected in the Baseline), water banking, water harvesting, vegetative and <br />evaporation management, and other methods on a multi -farm, watershed or <br />subregional scale. This third in the array of water management changes <br />injected into the analysis might take the form of actions by local water <br />management districts, by state agencies, or the federal government, or some <br />combination of public sector programs. <br /> <br />Some local augmentation methods are already being implemented by indivi- <br />dual farmers, e.g., conjunctive use of playa waters. Others would require <br />i nit i at i ves, pa rt i ci pat i on and/or fundi ng support by 1 oca 1, state or federa 1 <br />agencies. Weather modification and desalinization programs are good examples <br />of the latter. Any of these programs already authorized and available are <br />included in the Baseline projections, particularly those available for adop- <br />tion by individual farmers at their own discretion. Programs which require <br />regional or subregional publicly sponsored action (e.g. desalination) were <br />treated as new programs for analysis. <br /> <br />SUBREGIONAL INTRASTATE IMPORTATION SUPPLY MANAGEMENT STRATEGY <br />(MS-4): Augment local water supplies with interbasin transfer <br />of surface waters as available (the words "minor" and "long- <br />term" as used in original definition were dropped). <br /> <br />Prior studies and reports indicate that portions of some of the six <br />states, pa rti cul arly Nebraska and eastern Ok 1 ahoma, have surface water <br />resources that may be surplus to their future needs and which might be con- <br />served and transferred for use in deficient areas within the Region. <br /> <br />The assumption for Strategy Four was that all decisions and actions <br />required to implement the water transfer are within the power and authority <br />(existing or amended) of the individual state and would not require inter- <br />state agreements. Long-range state water plans provide a basis for defining <br />possible sources, quantities, conveyance routings, costs and inputs. Each <br />state quantified for the Study "existing and potential intrastate sources of <br /> <br />II <br />