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ro '1'/ r; .1 (' l.l:... c:.... ~ ,...l . . . and that l"ederal taxes ~lere estimated at ~:;69 million a year. All this from an area which has been built around a reclamation project i.n \!hich the Federal Govern:n.ent invested the grand total of ::)2,3 million. I suspect that in another half century, the projects now being completed at costs of several hundred million dollars will have the same outstr,nding ratio of returns to investment that the Salt River project boasts. Our, challenge to the future then, as I see it, is not alone to accept the engineering responsibility of designing and constructing the structures we need to put our remaining unused \o/ater resources to worle. It is to join in the common cause of preserving and strengthening ~le case for reclamation lberever and whenever it is challenged. Elf acting promptly and vigorously, we can keep ~le way opening up for addi- tional [;ro,.rth and opportunity in the arid 'vJest. No olle question..: t..'1e engineers' competency today as we use roads, bridges, elevators, automobiles, airplanes, ships, and innumerable other creations of sound engineering. These tllings were developed and improved by engineers of broad vision and with a lceen reoJ.ization of the future needs. We have not yet found, nor does anyone expect to find, a substitute for water. Our very lives depend on it. Industrial anc; agricultural need for 'later is tre- mendous ane eJ;panding. The entire economic growth of the COUll try is keyed directly to adequate water supply. t ) 'There are nany challenges to enGineers today in many fields, but the greatest of these is, I believe, the neeC 'co rrovide adequate, usable uater, and to convince the doubters of the necessitJ,' for plannir,g and building for the future. xxx , \ 75808 \ 6 \ \ - ---- - II; '''I}) -:;,,, P'+~ i)S" '1J ,.SfJr'. ~" S "/!/~: . IJ> ., ~ . '-, ;"'Al