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<br />Preface <br /> <br />The Committee on Water was established in 1964 to examine the relation of <br />scientific research to national and regional programs for the management of <br />water resources. More specifically, it has concerned itself with the quality of <br />planning and decision-making that enters into these actions and programs, <br />especially as they affect the principal interests of all the users of water. In its <br />first report, Alternatives in Water Management, the Committee set out in some <br />detail the scientific, engineering, economic, and social perspectives that, in its <br />view, should qualify major water-management decisions. <br />In the present report, the Committee gives its attention principally to water <br />problems and management in the Colorado River basin as a means of pro- <br />viding a concrete example of the general suggestions presented in the earlier <br />report. Water management, of course, is only one of the major fields in which <br />substantial investment may prove beneficial to a regional economy. For <br />purposes of illustration in this context, the Committee has chosen the State of <br />Arizona. The Committee devotes Chapter 5 to several alternative fields for <br />investment in regional economic development that could be at least equally <br />beneficial. Thus, it suggests that choice with respect to water-management <br />programs is in two dimensions: (1) between water programs and other pro- <br />grams, and (2) between alternative water-managt:ment programs. <br />The Committee deeply appreciates the support given to its work by the <br />Army Corps of Engineers, the Bureau of Reclamation, the Department of <br />Agriculture, the Environmental Science Services Administration, the Federal <br />Water Pollution Control Administration, the National Science Foundation, <br />and the U.S. Geological Seei&ty 5<..,..- v ~ 'j . <br /> <br />Gilbert F. White, Chairman <br /> <br />May 1968 <br />