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I review briefly our ground water program and this will be sort of a prelude to some remarks that Mr. Kuiper will make later on in the pro- gram. The growth of the program is illustrated by this particular chart over here and the colors I'll describe. I don't know what color this one is, but it is something like purple, and it represents the amount of state or local cooperating funds that have gone into the pro- gram. The blue represents that they have been matched on a 50-50 basis. The green is funds that are all-federal funds and they have been contributed chiefly by other agencies of the federal government. The Missouri River Basin program, for example, is probably the largest contributor. Our studies in ground water, as the chart shows, started in 1946 - fiscal year 1946. It started about October of 1946 and maintained, as you see, a fairly constant level over a period of years. The type of study that we have can be described in our three-phase program. Vie have three phases to it. One is the aerial appraisal type studies which are chiefly de- signed to show the extent of the water-bearing formations, the extent of development of those basins, to describe and define the problems that are existing and those that are likely to occur. This particular map here shows the ex- tent of the aerial type investigations and the brown pattern represents the current field work that is going on in the area. The blue pattern is areas where the field investigations have been completed and, in some cases, a type of report has been put out. The other pattern here, this purple, indicates areas where pub- lished reports are now available. 1 All of our investigations result in reports and the reports that we have designed right now initially come out with just basic information that we have. In other words, we are trying to get the information out to the public as soon as possible so they can use it in developing new sources, understanding their old sources better,