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<br /> <br />Sharing the Water <br /> <br />:'J I States drained by Missouri <br />RNer organize. to seek compa~t <br />for protection of basin mterestJ, <br />enabling bill in Congress. <br /> <br />Eight stotes uf the 600,OOO-square. <br />mile :rvlissouri River basin have formed <br />an !"nterstatc committee, bilsed on the <br />pia of the. advisory committee of 14 <br />for ed by stotes of the Colorado River <br />basin (B\v-}un.5'43,p18), and for the <br />same purpose-to protect local intcreSi <br />in the development of the basin and u <br />timatcly to work out a compact simib <br />to the Colorado River compact. A bill <br />~10W pending in Congress would <br />aUflOrize such a compact and would <br />gi\ the states untild 946 to present <br />on to Congress and the President for <br />approval. <br />. Two from Each ~tate-At an organ- <br />ization meeting in On'laha, Cov. 1\'1. ! <br />Sh:lrpe 'of South Dakota was !lam <br />chairman, arid George Knapp, K~ns <br />state engineer, secretary. l'vlcmbership <br />is compos~d of two persons from each <br />state, who arc appointed by the ,go\:,- <br />e nor. . '. <br />A~ in all western river b3sins~ in. <br />tcrests of the upper' and lower. sta.tes' <br />are sharply di"ided and,' at times con- <br />flicting. l\'lontana, \Vyoming,- an~' <br />. Nort]1 all~ South Da.kQt~i ttH~ four ,up <br />~ pq i\.1 i~~oLiri. ~a"si~L: ~ta~te,~~, .flfe 'p.i~,~<1riJ .' <br />;,iiIte.rc:<;t~d in irrig~:lti.on.:a,'n'ci-:_po~er pos-, t <br />1.',_';"" '. ' ."". '.. <br />sl,QIIt~!~~.. Last' yea~~ ,ths::y:, ,:Oeg~n ta,lks:'^.-;: <br />.-:-~m~' g:.themselves'~T\d:~90n 4~ci.~ed it. ,': <br />:' \vas better to confer Lit"once with' the' ;"- <br />i,lour ower basin stItes, '!Vii'sSOL1~i,' iow/], <br />Kansas, and Nebraska, primarily in- <br />terested In flood control and naVig,\ <br />tion. The new organization was th <br />re'llt. <br />olorado, which originates much of <br />th IVlissourJ basin's water through the . <br />North and South Platte rivers, was in- <br />vited to join, but its offiCIals think that. <br />for now elt least, the state is sufficiently <br />protected by upper.stream compacts. <br />:Minncsota hns :.1 tiny corner of the 1\1is- <br />soun drainage but, for the present. isn't <br />interested eitner. <br />. Federal Government Excluded-Two <br />other recent High Plains water de\'elop~ <br />ments: <br />(I) A compact among Colorado, Kan- <br />sas, and Nebraska dIviding the waters <br />of the Republican River (a lVIissouri <br /> <br />I Business Week <br /> <br />. June 26, 1943 <br />, \ <br />