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There is another phase in the adjustment of'interstate interests in <br />water which should be noted. A significant statement appears in the report <br />of the American Society of Civil Eng.ineers$ "Interstate Water Problems ", <br />which reads; <br />"The uses and pollution of the waters of interstate streams, and the <br />settlement of controversies between States, resulting from such uses <br />or claims, constitute at present (1939) one of the most urgent pro - <br />blems with which the States and t he Federal Government are confronted., <br />A conflict of interests inevitably arises sooner or later on nearly <br />every interstate stream, This fact becomes highly significant when <br />it is realized that no general comprehensive plan., with respect to <br />the development of an interstate stream, can be effective or satis. <br />factory without co- operation between the States, and at timesbetween <br />the States and the Federal Government, ":. <br />In advance of interstate controversy the interests of the states and <br />water users can often be determined on the basis of a general comprehensive <br />plan within a basin. With cooperation between the states and the federal <br />government many controversies may be avoided and the interests of states <br />adjusted on a satisfactory basis. This procedure is now being followed <br />in the Colorado River Basin, <br />x.15.. <br />