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<br />uu-r.L <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />I might give you just a little result on <br />this project. We have found several things. <br />We have found that one of the biggest impedi- <br />ments to policy making options, one of the <br />things that limits the options a policy maker <br />has in making his decisions, is the extent to <br />which his jurisdiction is populated by people <br />who interestingly are college dropouts. These <br />people seemingly are going through some kind <br />of cultural panic or status panic and they <br />react strongly and tend to severely limit the <br />number of options that they want their policy <br />makers to entertain. <br /> <br />Another finding is, a very important one <br />I think, that the administrators do hear from <br />the people who are the most opposed to them, <br />have the blackest images of them. Now, one of <br />the questions we want to pursue from here on is, <br />what do the administrators do with these communi- <br />cation bits that come to them? That is, the <br />people who oppose policy making options, people <br />who oppose the policy makers themselves, have the <br />blackest images'.of them, do communicate with their <br />deoision'makers at a fairly high rate. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />The second project that we have undertaken <br />comes under the regular fund quota that is given <br />us each year. Thus far we have gone three years <br />on this project. This has sought to de~ermine <br />how the water industry in colorado, its admin- <br />istrators and organizations, adapt to the <br />physical and cultural changes in their environ- <br />ments. We have carried on a rather extensive <br />research objective here that takes time in <br />terms of the small amount of funds that we have <br />had to use. Therefore our findings are yet <br />rather tentative and we will have to go another <br />year, I'm afraid, before we can really p~ttern <br />this out. However, we have found an underdevel- <br />opment in administrative techniques. That is, <br />I am using this conception of underdevelopment <br />much the same conception you have in the use of <br />it in foreign countries. For instance, we have <br />found that these people don't communicate w~th <br />each otper very much from organization to <br />