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beneficiary may have the finances to potentially provide for those improvements. The farmer still gets to farm the same amount of land, but there's also additional waters that are available. A lot of them that you hear about are some potential urban areas paying for on-farm improvements. If you look at the Pacific Northwest, what John had mentioned, you have the power community paying for on- farm improvements. They get increased power generation and they also get instream-flow values for endangered species. We also had a case in Nebraska where we actually had fish and wildlife interests paying for on-farm improve- ments. Here there were very limited recreational opportuni- ties, and basically a reservoir got drained down every year. There were very limited fish and wildlife opportunities. By providing for those improvements, they now have a minimum pool for fish and wildlife, and also for recreation. So, there's some creative partnerships. John indicated some of the things we can do that don't cost money. But the other aspect of it, there are some very good opportunities to do some very creative financial partnerships. A-(Marc Reisner) Can I add one thing to that? Dennis and I are actually partners, I guess, to a degree, in a project in California where we're trying to use rice fields as off- stream water storage. Now the nice thing about rice is, the soil it grows on hardly percolates. That's the reason it grows rice; it used to grow wetlands. What we want to -and "we" is really the Nature Conser- vancy, Ducks Unlimited, and a couple of other groups-we want to turn these into de facto wetlands in the wintertime. We could add five, potentially 10 million waterfowl with a flyway without having to buy any land as refuges, without having to put anyone out of a job. The critical thing is the fishery could suffer if all these extra water diversions flood this land in the winter. The fishery could also gain by the release of that water. There are about 600,000 acres of land that has this impermeable adobe soil underneath it that grows rice. We want to get some of these growers to set aside a portion of their land for water storage and to divert water in the wintertime when the Sacramento River is running at maybe 150,000 cfs, as opposed to 8,000 cfs. Pond that water, build up the levies so that they have a supply that carries over into the spring, so at least their first irrigation can come from water that's already there so they don't have to divert nearly as much water. You've got about 160 diversion points along that reach of the river in the spring when it's a crucial out-migration time for salmon. So, if you get enough acreage involved, you can get 150,000, 200,000, or 250,000 acre feet of water that stays in Shasta when it should and keeps the reservoir cooler. So, that's another permutation. It's timing of diversions as much as it is the net diversion itself. 18