WSP01705

• File Number: 8059
• Description: Section D General Studies-State Water Plan
• State: CO
• Date: 4/1/1973
• Title: Environmental Considerations-Imperial Irrigation District News-Water Spouts
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: News Article/Press Release

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Durbrow Retire's
27-Year Position.
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(Conrinued from Page 7. Co. 1)
Resources Association, the: Western
Agricultural Economics Association, the
Southern California Water Conference,
and the Soil ConserviJtlon Society of
America.
Since 1946, he has been secretary of
the California Caucus of the National
Water Resources Association (formerly
the NRAI and ot the California Water
Council, which has become the California
Reclamation Association.
He is a member of the Statewide Water
Problems Committee of the California
Chamber of Commerce; a member of the
Advisory Council of the University of
California Water Resources Center, and
was chairman of the Council from 1968
to 1971; a member of the Common-
wealth Club of California, and chairman
of its Water Problems Section in 1966;
and is a member of the Society of Cali.
fornia Pioneers and the California Aggie
Alumni Association.
In past years, he has been director of
the California Irrigation Institute and has
served as a member of the University of
California's Agricultural Advisory
Council.
For 27 years, Durbrow has cut a wide
swath through the Legislative halls in
Sacramento. Much of the landmark water
and district legislation during that period
was either instituted, or supported, by
the Association through him.
Bob has been offered, and has
accepted, a contract to continue his
tenure with the Association as a con-
sultant. He plans to devote all of his
working time to ACWA activities, giving
such assistance and Cldvice as may be
asked by his successor.

Fraser Named

Durbrow's successor in the position of
Executive Director will be John P. Fraser,
40, currently General Counsel of the
Association. Fraser joined ACWA in
September of 1970 after a 13-year tenure
with the Californirl State Automobile
Association. A graduate of San Francisco
State College and Golden Gate Law
School, he was admitted to the California
Bar in 1964.
As assistant manager of the govern-
men tal affairs department of CSAA,
Frasel gClined valuable legislative contacts
and experience which he l"Ias put to excel-
lent use during his three years with the
Association.

WA TER
SPOUTS.

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Western Water News is pleased to reprrm the following editorial. which appeared
in the April, 1973, issue of Imperial Irrigation District's District News as an "Editor
at Large" feature.

There'll come a day when the people of this favored land will curse the
Sierra Club and the Friends of the Earth and all those other ecology
extremists.
It will be the day when you flip the switch and there is no light. A day
when you adjust the thermostat but there is no heat or air conditioning. A
day when you go to the plant or the office but there is no work because
there is no power to turn the wheels or run the lathe.
This country is, indeed, facing a power shortage. It is not too far away:
10-15 years, as things go now.
Even if we started today to construct the needed facilities, it would be
nip and tuck with disaster. It takes time to build a power plant; time to
explore and drill for oil; time to develop new sources of energy and power.
Yet in the face of this threat, the posey.pluckers persist .in battling
every proposal for power plants, every effort to build an oil line from
Alaska, every attempt to explore and drill for oil offshore.
They talk, these environmentalists, of exotic sources of energy. They
talk through their beanies. Geothermal power fully developed would pro-
vide, at most, ten percent of our needs. So lar energy, in the present state
of the art, would require a battery the size of Arizona to supply power to
the City of Los Angeles.
The back.to.naturo folks talk ahout charging more for light and gas, this
to cut demand. You know who would get it in the neck on that one: the
working guy.. . through higher utility bills, higher prices for food and
clothes, and higher taxes (schools and hospitals and public buildings use
power, too).
If some folks want to go live in a cave and light their way by candle and
tote their. stuff by oxen, that's their bag. But they have no right to flip the
switch on the rest of us.
To coin a phrase: power to the people. . . and soon.

Remote Sensing Suggested for
Environmental, Other Studies

(Continued from Page 7, Col. 3)

Davis has been appointed coordinator of
Remote Sensing Operations within the
Agency, and it is expected that many
departments in the state government will
profit from the work now being under.
taken. Extensive research has been pro-
posed in coordination with the ETRS.B
satellite IClter this year, according to
Strandberg.
"Decision-makers at all levels of
government need to know more about
the physictll condition of the surface of
the earth within the region for which
they are responsible if they are to plan

more effectively," he said. "Engineers
and others must be able to measure land
areas to plan and supervise construction.
These needs, combined, can be satisfied
more effectively using orthophotomaps
than they can be by use of line.drawn
maps."
The orthophotomap was developed by
the US Geological survey originally, but
now commercially produced large-scale
orthophotomaps afe available which are
frequently better and less expensive than
the traditional line-drawn mClps, Strand.
berg notes.

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