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001170 3 per ,~a:pita. "No method exists for projecting per capita requirements with certainty to the year 2020 or even to 198D," it was reported, "if incentives to reduce their daily consumption could be provided municipal and industrial users, total water requirements might be reduced. " A problem here has been outlined in the solution of which the APOs might playa most significant role, if they were appropriately brought into the planning process, and goals were identified and incentives provided, Degradation of Quality of Waters In the face of deterioration of the waters of the Colorado River in its lower section, where the quality already has fallen much below recommended United States Public Health service drinking water standards, the Analytical Summary report advises that future water resources development plans should provide high quality water to municipal users, and that present and future municipal water supplies should be analyzed for undesirable and toxic chemical, trace metal, pesticide, and exotic organic ingredients. The plans presented, however, seem inadequate to provide relief for most of the people of the Pacific Southwest who are dependent on the river for their drinking water. The area planning organizations should participate in searches for answers to the water degradation problems of the Pacific Southwest in all future water resources planning. The solutions to municipal water problems in the main traditionally have rested on local agencies and their representatives, Federal and state agencies can pose a problem like progressive degradation of the sources of drinking water but they may not impose solutions on local governments, which should be given every encouragement to work out the problem themselves. The energies of the local agencies should be marshalled through the APOs, The Problem of Multiplying Power Demands Electric power requirements for the Pacific Southwest are forecast to increase along present trends from 21,406 megawatts in 1965 to 565,800 megawatts in 2020, or about 26.5 times. The use of fresh water for cooling purposes at the required generating stations will deplete (evaporate) 1.26 million acre-feet of water a year in 2020. Powerp1ants and transmission lines will occupy 965,000 acres of land. The alarming totals that are forecast when assessed with regard to the environmental consequences they may impose, seem to argue strongly for involvement of the urban areas in planning to dampen the growth trends of power use in their own self-interest. As in the instance of per capita per day water ' demands , the Frame- work studies anticipated continuing increases in per capita per EXHIBIT D