WSP01765

• File Number: 8131.600
• Description: Southeastern Colorado Water conservancy District - SECWCD
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 1/1/1972
• Title: Brochure No 7 - Scientific Water Management Arkansas Valley Colorado - 1969-2050 -- The Future of the Arkansas Valley is It's Water---
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

clouds which create snow and rain. Water from these
storms, not utilized by crops, human beings, or evapo-
o ration, returns to the ocean, and the process starts
=--:J all over again. The pragram is further amplified
N through the use of pumps which draw water from the
::=> ground water basins, and. place it upon the land.
Some percolates back into the ground, while the re-
a') mainder is utilized by crops ar evaporates to form
~ precipitation again. This cycle occurs all over the
Earth, and is the key to the utilization of the limited
water resources by the ever increasing population.

The only thing thot hos chonged in the hydro-
logical cycle is the ever increasing population. Mil-
lions of new people, with ever increasing demands
for precious water. Population growth ;s generally
experienced in areas where water has never been
plentiful, with predictions of continued growth, and
still no new water available. Solutions must be found.

Meeting the water needs of the remainder of
the 20th Century and the 21 st, is a matter of
"SURVIVAL", The only onswer con be through the
scientific management of the "use and re-usell of
existing water supplies. Technology is available to-
day to modify the hydrologic system to augment
some existing supplies through weather modification.
Engineering is ready to physically move volumes of
water from one source to a use area, but these are
only temporary resolutions to the complex problem.
There must first be an awareness that a problem does
exist, and on acknowledgment that modern science
and technology can, will and must arise to the oc-
casion to provide water resources for every use,
including human, municipal, agricultural, industrial,
recreation, and any other which may be developed
by mankind in the years to come.

History books ore complete with chapters of
documented facts showing how civilizations became
nomads, moving from one water supply to another,
and then becoming extinct because the lost water
supply "ran out". Right here in America it is estab-
lished that Indian Tribes were forced to move from
one area to another, and then suddenly vanish be-
cause of the loss of on adequate supply of water.
Countries 011 over the world have fought wars to
protect their water, and to obtain new supplies. In
times of war, sources of water are prime targets
because human beings cannot survive without a min-
imal amount of water. Crops die for the want of
water; disease, famine, and drouth result from the
lack of this valuable and essential commodity. It has
happened in each Century, it need not happen in the
21 st Century because modern science and technology
are available to answer the problems and thus assure
future prosperity and well being.

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Early in the 1900's when man was first moving
into the machine age, the few scientists living then
determined the basic sciences were definitely related.
The characteristics of heat, light and sound were
identical, and one could be used to resolve the prob-
lems of the other. Evidence of this is a way of life
today. The telephone, television, radio, automobile,
home heating, space exploration, medical technology,
water management, the /ist is endless. No one can
dispute this.

Mathematicians and scientists have studied the
relationship between the basic sciences and, fortu-
nately, a few foresaw the serious water problems
of the 1950's ond 60's, ClOd proceeded to develop
methods to forecast them accurately, and to offer
solutions. They proved beyond a doubt the similarity
of .the characteristics of electricity and water. "Prove
it", college professors said. " Put it into models", the
engineers commented. "1 don't believe it", the laymen
shouted. Prove it they did - models they built - and
the results were conclusive to the majority of those
in water management fields.

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This sketch describes how the scientists and
engineers take data gathered in the field, and trans-
late them into the Electric-Analog-Model Program. The
concept has been proven beyond 0 doubt down
through the years, and is being used in water studies
in approximately 60 areas in the United States and
Foreign Countries. Fortunately, the science is old
enough to. have been checked out over a period of
years agamst actual practice, and by utilizing Digital
Computers, which hove "memory banks" capable of
retaining and applying a wide variety of different
applications to reach long-range solutions in an ex-
tremely short period of time.

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