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was built as a separate part of the project with the cost being charged entirely to Salt Lake City. From the Weber River surplus water and power water, and the Duchesne Tunnel, we get 102, 000 acre feet which is about our average annual anticipated yield of the reservoir. As the program is set up, 100,000 acre feet is all that will be sold each year. The rest will be for holdover storage capacity in the reservoir. We had exceptionally high water in 1952, but since that time the runoff has continued dry and drier until this year from the Weber, where we had anticipated the annual average yield of 54,000 acre feet, we received none. So most of our water this year has been from the Duchesne, which is a tributary of the Colorado River. If the drouth continues to the extent that that river is more affected and should it be affected to anywhere near the extent that the other rivers in the State have, then we just haven't the water to deliver. The prospects for 1955, with the carry-over water in the reservoir, are that we'll have ample water for 100"/0 delivery this year, but after our use this year, we will have approximately 40, 000 acre feet in our reservoir. The Metropolitan Water Users of Salt Lake City, who have been concerned about the supply, have conserved as much as they could this year and are holding over 24,000 acre feet of water, which will be ample for next year, but the irrigators under the project will use all their water this year. So if we proceed on the same basis and the drouth continues for another year as it has the past year, we will not have the water to deliver. Conservation of water on the farms has started with the installa- tion of sprinkler systems. They feel that with sprinklers they can irrigate possibly three acres to one by row irrigation. Many farmers are considering this method very seriously so that they can produce crops on less water. Our interest in the drouth conditions of the Colorado River Basin is that 500/0 of our Project's water comes from the Colorado River Basin and we could not exist without that water. Mr. E Ide r : There won't be any additional dust in our Southern California coastal area if the Colorado River drouth continues another year or two. That doesn't mean that we won't have a lot of dust over there. Most of you know that we go seven or eight months in a normal wet year in California without any rain, but in this case it won't be due to continued drouth in the Colorado River Basin. By way of explanation, the water diversions now being made and which have been made for the last fourteen years from Hoover Dam constitute a supplemental supply. Every year this diversion has increased to supply growing demands. _ 23 -