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<br />On37,85. " <br /> <br />.2. <br /> <br />surface water beoause the surface water of this slope <br />for the averaqe year bas all been appropriated under <br />the present system. <br /> <br />Under present: conditions industry ae(lUl'es water <br />d(fhta by buying up hdqaUon riqhte or by developinq <br />ground water supplies. Inal!lltu~ aB this method does not <br />require the allocation of non-existent water or qround <br />water for <1 speoific use which mayor may not d8Yelop, <br />it seems to be thapreferable solution for the East <br />Slope at least. ."'. <br /> <br />Conditions on the West..Slope Are different. A <br />block of water for the. oil ode industry might be 1I11llde <br />avail.bleby lUIIending the Constitution if such procedure <br />is deemed advisable. At least one oil company has &1- <br />re&dy purchased water dqhts from irr19ators. <br /> <br />2. Cost of Ir:dQ'at~~cr wndlu R:ef!learoh 'l'eo)ml9Ues. <br /> <br />Under the heading of a1droloqio Data Research On <br />pag9 29 the author say. the Water Conservation Board has <br />emDhuilll,,<1 "(8) the n.ed for data on the cost of applying <br />water to at least half of the arable land in the Colorado <br />basin so that the economiofeas.ibHity of hdqat10n for <br />this area will be known". <br /> <br />Such an empM.sis do41s not oocur in the Water Con- <br />servation Board. ($ report on the Water Resources of Colo- <br />rado. The State would be glad to have such datal how...r, <br />we now have data on more Iud than the available water <br />su~ly will irriqate. <br /> <br />On this same pate he suggests the poSSibilities of <br />"'using refined statistioal techniques. new eleotronic aids <br />to cOIlIputlnq and the new analytioal possibilities devel- <br />oped by soientists to a seleotive, highly imaqinative and <br />signifioantly les8 expansive attaok on the qigantio pro- <br />blem of data colleotions". I am sure that the hYdraulio <br />engineering profession will hasten to adopt all suoh <br />methods when they are adapted to the type of work, in'f01ved <br />in projeot planninq. . t.. <br /> <br />Blectronic aids have been used for some years in <br />solving equations with multiple unknowns. These invobe <br />the use of the inflow-outflow method in makinq an attempt <br />to estimate the produotion of a water shed. The maehine <br />is owned by the Bureau of Reclamation. <br />