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SYNOPSIS <br />This summer marks the beginning of the 1975 Assessment of Water and Related Land Re- <br />sources—a 2!/2-year effort designed to identify, describe, and emphasize the need to resolve the <br />Nation's severe existing and emerging water problems from both a national and State /regional <br />viewpoint. <br />The only previous national assessment, completed in 1968, identified the then emerging prob- <br />lems and outlined a continuing assessment process. The 1975 assessment, to be conducted by the <br />U.S. Water Resources Council as a function assigned to it by the Congress in the Water Resources <br />Planning Act of 1965 (Public Law 89 -80), will identify the Nation's severe water and water - related <br />problems in more geographical detail and with greater regional and public participation. <br />For the 1975 Assessment, problem severity will be measured by the economic, environmental, <br />and social consequences of not having adequate water supplies (volume; surface area, depth and <br />cross section; flow characteristics; and aquatic habitat) to meet existing and potential future con- <br />dition water requirements. <br />The 1975 Assessment will be accomplished by the cooperative activities of State, regional, and <br />Federal agencies under the overall direction of the Water Resources Council's National Programs <br />and Assessment Committee.* Regional assessment activities will be coordinated and conducted by <br />selected Regional Sponsors —one for each of the Council's 21 water resource regions. <br />*Arden 0. Weiss, Chairman <br />Homer R. Hilner <br />Thomas C. Kasson <br />Konstance L. Kollar <br />Truman Goins <br />Jerry W. Knapp <br />John J. Hartke <br />Myron F. Tiemens <br />Robert S. Restall <br />Water Resources Council <br />2120 L Street, N.W. <br />Washington, D.C. 20037 <br />(phone 202 - 254 -5684) <br />U.S. Department of Agriculture <br />U.S. Department of the Army <br />U.S. Department of Commerce <br />U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development <br />U.S. Department of the Interior <br />U.S. Department of Transportation <br />Environmental Protection Agency <br />Federal Power Commission <br />