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<br />Progress Report
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<br />INTRODUCTION
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<br />The state of Kansas occupies an area of about 82,000 square miles.
<br />Its climate varies from semiarid to humid. There is no marked
<br />boundary between the various climatic zones, but rather they shift
<br />from year to year with changes in average temperature and the
<br />amount of annual rainfall.
<br />Precipitation is the source of all fresh water supplies and occurs
<br />in this region principally in the form of rain, but to some extent as
<br />snow and ice. The state is located in the Great Plains and lacks
<br />both mountains to store the snowfall and large natural lakes to hold
<br />runoff. This absence of natural storage results in unregulated dis-
<br />charge of water in the streams varying with the occurrence and in-
<br />tensity of rain.
<br />The availability of adequate water supplies is an important and
<br />sometimes limiting factor in establishing and maintaining profitable
<br />!lgricultural and industrial enterprises. Primarily Kansas is IIn agri-
<br />cultural state, although substantial industries are located here. After
<br />the war many new defense industries now established in the state
<br />will, no doubt, be adapted to other purposes, There is prospect of
<br />processing agricultural products in the manufacture of such ma-
<br />terials as paper, motor fuel, plllstics and synthetic rubber.
<br />Aside from eliminating much of the large economic loss now re-
<br />sulting from floods, the construction of reservoirs to regulllte the
<br />state's water supplies would provide for the development of some
<br />additional irrigation to aid in the stabilization of agriculture and to
<br />permit the material expansion of industry.
<br />The importance of water as 11 natural resource was recognized by
<br />the legislature over a quarter of a century ago, when it created the
<br />Kansas Water Commission in 1917 for the purpose of bringing about
<br />the orderly development of the state's water resources. The prepa-
<br />ration of plans for such development became one of the functions of
<br />the Division of Water Resources of the Kansas State Board of Agri-
<br />culture when the Division was created in 1927 through the consolida-
<br />tion of the Kansas Water Commission and the Division of Irrigation.
<br />Section 24-901 of the Kansas General Statutes provides as follow8:
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<br />"24-901. General. plan for water developme~t. As soon as practicable alter
<br />organization the commission (now the Division 01 Water Resources) shall in
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