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I - has.happened t.o the upper Rio Grande. On the Pecos River, those who negotiated the Pecos River compact became quite gun-shy. In the .compac~-there is no guaranteed delivery even year.by year to the iower states, merely an accouriting procedure whiCh would determine whether.or not increased depletions into Mexico were .man-:made or natural. The drouth was completely une~pected. - The stage of Great Salt Lake for years was-used.~s a sort of a criterion as to water supply in the intermountain region. There's a good correlation between the runoff of the streams. that feed. Great Salt Lake and the 'streams that rise in the ROCky Mountains in . - \ .. .Colorado. For those that feed Great Salt Lake there is no outlet. The water is dis- sipated by evapora.tion. The records being back in 1850. The stage of Great Salt Lake persistently rose year after year after year, andgav.e-the people dealing with water sup- plie.s some comfort..., However, the same year when .the drought began to hit us, it began to show up out there_ an(! the stage of Great Salt Lake began to go down .in 1930. Now those of you who are fainiliar with it, know that resort . areas that were built .on the shore of the lake are -at .the present time several miles from the. water. I That doesn' t. mean that this dl:lought might last for all time, although nobody can say that this'mignt not-_be-normal and what happen- ed before was.abnormaL for a long period of time. However" that may be, it is absolutely impossible. to erase from the record the recorded flow from 1930 through 1964, which was unusually low. There is no study that can be inade, -no assumption that Can be made, that.can eradicate that from the record. That period is more than a generation. Throughout that entire period,.reservoirs on the stream might have existed.. Those that are planned, those that are being constructed, would in 1930 have begun to-.reiease water. The draw- down would be over an entire 35-year period.