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<br />,. <br /> <br />.' <br /> <br />"After studying the text of the treaty, after realizing that <br />Mexican engineers knew what they were about, and realizing also. <br />that if the time should come in the years ahead when the water <br />was sa saline that it was unusable for agricultural purposes, this <br />very treaty itself wauld be the greatest protectian that the last <br />users in the United States could have. <br />"On the subject of salinity, I am satisfied--which shaws <br />that I am an optimist--tha t if this matter became very impartant, <br />the ingenuity af man wauld find the answer. Already in a small <br />way we know that hundreds of aur bays whase ships have been <br />tarpedaed at sea or whose airplanes have ceased to. functian <br />above the acean, who. have been abliged to. take to. the rafts, <br />have by a very simple device made use of the ocean water so <br />they wauld have water to. drink. <br />"I am nat selling America short an the saline questian. <br />We will have that answered if it ever becames an issue, but <br />the best evidence obtainable indicates it will not be an issue <br />for 40 ar SO years to. come. " <br /> <br />Senator Wiley really saw the sa-called quality questian in its proper <br /> <br />Perspective. It always was quantity not quality and quality was brought in <br /> <br />as a means af attacking the quantity problem. <br /> <br />When Senator McCarran on page 3372 discussed this phase of the <br /> <br />treaty, he shawed that actually he was cancerned about the quantity problem. <br /> <br />He argue~ha~_ ~~ ________ __ <br /> <br />". . . Is it not true that the treaty has in contemplatian water <br />far irrigatian acrass the Mexican line and in the Mexican area? <br />Far several days we have discussed nathing but the use to which <br />the water is to be put in the years to come. That being true, can <br />any Senator read the treaty and nat read into. it the question of the <br />quality af water which is to. be delivered to Mexica? If not, what <br />is the quality to be, and how is the water to. be delivered? It is <br />nat merely 1,500,000 acre-feet of water which we must deliver, <br />but it must be usable water. Therefore, we must furnish not <br />only 1,500,000 acre-feet af water, but we must furnish that <br />valume of water in a usable condition. Nat only that, but we <br />must furnish 1,500,000 acre-feet at the intakes af the Mexican <br />warks. The water must be taken to. the intakes by a head af <br />water. It is impossible to release anly 1,500,000 acre-feet af <br /> <br />B 46 <br />