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<br />" <br /> <br />Certain other benefi ts not graced by that magic label are, nevertheless, <br /> <br />quite significant. Among these are the enjoyment by the public of <br />recreational and scenic values in water. On a more practical level, <br />businessmen who serve farmers will surely suffer if the extent of irrigated <br />acreage of their customers is reduced, by transbasin diversion . .. In <br />addition to benefits being presently enjoyed, there are future benefits which <br />it is anticipated will be received by the basin and its inhabitants as the <br />population and economy expand to predicted levels. On the basis of such <br /> <br />anticipations, investments of money are made in land and business <br /> <br />enterpr ises in the basin."9 <br /> <br />2. The Protection Concept <br /> <br />In discussing the concept of protection for the basin of origin against the <br /> <br />loss or diminution of present or future benefits resulting from out-of-basin <br /> <br />wa ter transfers, Ralph W. Johnson noted: <br /> <br />"It is not possible to locate with any certainty the origins of the notion <br /> <br /> <br />that an area-of-origin is entitled to special protection. Historically, in the <br /> <br /> <br />West, it might be attributed as much to the alleged 'Rape of Owens Valley' <br /> <br /> <br />by a water-seeking Los Angeles at the turn of the century as to any other <br /> <br /> <br />event. J-IO More generally, however, it would appear to be a natural by- <br /> <br /> <br />product of the same self-interest or self-protective characteristic of <br /> <br /> <br />mankind that motivates many of his other activities. One can, however, <br /> <br />find in the field of water law various expressions of this protective attitude <br />that antedate in time, and later parallel the development of the specific <br />notion of area-of-or igin protec tion. Probably the most significant such <br /> <br />-12- <br />