WSP00913

• File Number: 8272.600.60
• Description: Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program - Basin Member State Info - Utah
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 3/7/1975
• Title: Colorado Regional Assessment Study - Phase One Report for the National Commission on Water Quality - Part 2 of 2 -- Chapter VI - end
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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The recent increase in activity resulting from energy resource

exploration and development has reversed this long-standing population

decline in many of the counties and will likely reverse it in others. What

these areas now face is not declining populations but increasing populations

and, at an ever-accelerating rate. One of the primary constraints on

continued growth, as noted above, is the availability of water of sufficient

quantity and quality to meet the needs of expanded industrial and municipal

growth. Depending upon the nature and rate of growth, the primary social

institutions of the area will be affected. The following are among the

important social institutions that need to be considered in assessing

change that will likely be associated with the implementation of PL 92-500.

Local Govermnent, In many cases, local govermnents in the

countries of the Basin are ill-equipped to respond to the problems and

changes that confront them. Differing allocations of water may contribute

to important changes in local power structures. New migrants to the

area will initially be largely disenfranchised but will eventually, in some

instances, replace the present leadership structures in many of the smaller

communities and counties.

The Family, Several impacts need to be assessed concerning the

family including changes in family structure and relationships associated

with com.m.unity growth and change. Some evidence collected in com-

mm;dties in the Basin that have experienced rapid rates of population

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