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<br />Weatherford and Jacoby (1975) concisely summarized the future demands and <br />allocations of Colorado River water by stating "In broad terms, the problem of <br />managing the Colorado River is the problem of allocating a flow resource in <br />such a way as to; satisfy legally preferred current demands without foreclosing <br />the satisfaction of a different set of configuration of demands in the future. <br />When so viewed, it is clear that there will be no single or final solution to <br />the problems of allocation and management in the Colorado River Basin. The <br />time for seriously addressing emerging generation of problems, however, is <br />now." <br /> <br />A number of comprehensive reports were developed in the mid-1970's. For <br />example, the main goal of the Western U.S. Water Plan (known as the Westwide <br />Study) was to develop adequate information on which to base future decisions on <br />water and related resources in the eleven western states (U.S. Bureau of <br />Reclamation 1975). This plan was done under the authority of the Colorado <br />River Basin Project Act of 1968 (Public Law 90-537). In 1976, the U.s. Fish <br />and Wildlife Service funded a study through the Resources for the Future to <br />summarize problems of water, fish and wildlife, and potential energy <br />developments and their impacts in the Upper Colorado River (Spofford et al. <br />1980). <br /> <br />Key Federal Legislation <br /> <br />The American public's concern about environmental issues had surges and <br />declines during the past century. Two world wars and a depression of the <br /> <br />7 <br />