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<br />ten million gallon per day reuse plant. Here <br />again, the initial approach will be for indus- <br />trial use but during the development of this <br />type and size of the reuse plant we will be <br />establishing dependability and we will be going <br />through the process of conditioning people to <br />the absolute necessity of reuse of our water. <br /> <br />Now I emphasize 'conditioning people' <br />because it relates to the time lag that it <br />takes to develop raw water projects just as <br />much as it does to develop reuse projects. It <br />will take us ten, fifteen or twenty years to <br />develop the technique and to perfect it and <br />to get acceptance of people to have this water <br />introduced into the system for reuse. Such is <br />not the case of some of our neighbors to the <br />east where they, at the present time, are <br />treating water that is probably not much better <br />initially than what comes out of our sewage <br />treatment plants. <br /> <br />Let's take a quick look at a chart which <br />projects our raw water requirements over the <br />next forty years. The bottom line on this <br />chart indicates a projected requirement, based <br />on our best available information of growth <br />in the area. It starts off with the 200,000 <br />acre-feet and we have part of 1968. At the <br />present time we are just a little over 200,000 <br />acre-feet of requirement on an average, and <br />the chart projects this over 600,000 acre-feet <br />in the year 2008. The raw water supply, the <br />next line - the middle line up - starts at <br />approximately 300,000 acre-feet in 1968 and <br />continues across on a fairly level basis until <br />such time as we can perfect the plan and <br />initiate the construction for some of the pro- <br />posals that I have outlined. Then based on an <br />economic construction schedule, additional <br />water is made available on a somewhat steeper <br />line and projecting to the year 2008 again we <br />find that we have about 600,000 acre-feet of <br />water or nearly three times as much as we have <br />available at the present time. This, of course, <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />I <br />