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<br />. <br /> <br />DAMS WILL SQUEEZE <br />RIVER'S, LAST DROP <br /> <br />The most sought-after and fought-about <br />water in the nation is that which flows in <br />the Colorado River, down from snow-capped <br />sources in the Rockies to its desert delta. En <br />route, it must supply the seven states of its <br />arid basin plus some demanding neighbors, <br />notably Los Angeles. When gigantic dams like <br />. the Glen Canyon and Navajo are completed <br />and added to the huge Hoover and Davis <br />dams, the Colorado will be just ahout th~ ' <br /> <br />-, b- <br /> <br />world's most carefullv husbanded and most <br />oarsimoniouslv rationed river. And it sets a <br />pattern other basins may have to adopt. <br />"But," explains an eminent scientist, "you <br />never completely solve water problems. You <br />merely create new choices. In the West, for <br />example, when water is comnletdv controllt>ti, <br />when and to whom do yOU release it? Fisher- <br />men, farmers, mines. industry. cities-all will <br />want to tap it at will. Who makes the choice?" <br /> <br />LIFE 51 :76-77, December 22, 1961. <br />(photographs omitted) <br />