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<br />'. <br /> <br />!'.;ri. ':)0~.LMU3: No, it hes been receding for cunturies eccording <br />to the observ2tioiC, of experts. 1!'rrm Bonneville it hc.s receded <br />to [', mere remnDnt, 'i'he implicrtion is th!'.t bec~ use of irrig:=.tion <br />it should be less now tkn it r;:',s fifty yeF,rs ago. unless some <br />climatic condition interposed to ch~nge the situction. The <br />W::>.ter now running into it is no more tkcn it I'!C,S formerly. So <br />thet from t'hi~3 long experience of seventy-five ye:,rs. we certc.in-: <br />ly hr:ve eskblished that result. lie will show in detail hoVl this <br />occurs before we get through. <br />HR. ~M};RSON: 'l'his system of i rrig!'. tion thr: t you h!' ve des- <br />cribed ~ctually contributes additionel wuter to the lakes, do <br /> <br />, .:;;.~ <br />~ I underst9nd you So? <br />MR. DORU,!US: '.chere [:re people who do not study the ceuse, <br />who recIly believe end aSHert thc.t it has prOduced moro.Vleter. <br />Of course I don't f,o th~t far. But the fuct remoins th~t the <br />water 1s ct [l h1gher elevF.ltion when theoreticolly it should <br />be below where it \'1['.6 when \Ve started to 1rrigote. <br />MR. l:MJ;'RSON: '/Jell you know 1n your own minds there is an <br />aotual consurn)ti.va use of water. <br />Llrl. j)O~lj\lUS: Surely -- certainly. OUT experiellce m[',y seem <br />in one sense anom:'.lous; nnd oannot be fully trl?ced to th["t im- <br />mutnble law of (!rc '11 ty which decrees that water sh3l1 run down <br />hill. ~tere is a~ycrent controdict10n between diminished strecm <br /> <br />3.1. <br /> <br />'. <br />