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<br />~'!lIl!!lUL~mg~i~,l"." <br /> <br />79 <br /> <br />74). <br /> <br />than the need for scenery, wilderness, and open spaces, He also called <br /> <br />attention to the large quantities of water that will be needed for <br /> <br />steam-generating plants, development of coal through gasification, and <br /> <br />extraction of other minerals such as trona, In addition, the oil shale <br /> <br />deposits in the Colorado River Basin are among the most extensive in the <br /> <br />world. Some predictions indicate that a million-barrel-per-day oil <br /> <br />shale industry would require about 150,000 acre-feet of water annually, <br /> <br />and coal development in the Four Corners region of Arizona, Colorado, <br /> <br />New Mexicos and Utah is expected to require a similar amount (Crawford <br /> <br />and Peterson, 1974). <br /> <br /> <br />The Joint Committee on Atomic Energy (1973) has summa~ized the past <br /> <br /> <br />uses of energy in the United States by comparing energy type, form of <br /> <br /> <br />use, and efficiency of use in their report, "Understanding the National <br /> <br /> <br />Energy Dilemma." Some of the energy problems that are facing the nation <br /> <br />are a result of a long history of neglect and oversight (Energy Policy <br /> <br />Project, 1974). Some reports have stressed the need for comprehensive <br /> <br /> <br />river bar-in planning (Everett, 1970; Kindswater, 1964; Mihursky and <br /> <br /> <br />Cronin, 1973; Hickman, 1975; Wydoski and coauthors, 1976; Simons, 1976). <br /> <br /> <br />Others have emphasized the importance of aesthetics to environmental <br /> <br /> <br />planning or discussed the relationship between social-psychological sys- <br /> <br /> <br />tems and water resource develo~ment (Bagley, Kroll, and Clark, 1973; <br /> <br /> <br />Fitzsimmons and Salama, 1973), <br /> <br /> <br />Various reports have summarized the supply and demand for water, or <br /> <br /> <br />considered choices 1n the use of water, from the Colorado River (U,S. Water <br /> <br />Resources Council, 1968; National Research Council, 1968), Beattie and <br /> <br />coauthors (1971) reviewed the economic consequences of transferring water <br /> <br />