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<br />Attachment No. 5 <br /> <br />001277 <br /> <br />* <br />WATER CONSERVATION CONCEPTS AND PRACTICES IN CALIFnRNIA <br />By <br />Hillialll E. Warne, Chairman <br />California Delegation <br />Western States Water Council <br /> <br />I welcome this opportunity to report to the Council <br /> <br />regarding the measures California is taking to make the most <br />effective use of present water supplies. My report is pursuant <br />to Chairman Holmer's request to each state of January 17, 1966. <br />This sUbject certainly relates directly to the overall objectives <br />of this Council, and it is logic~l that we should deal with it <br /> <br />early in our proceedings. <br />I believe that no area should import water as long as <br /> <br />it can meet its demands more economically from its own supply. <br /> <br />I suspect that there will be a need to define and evaluate many <br /> <br />considerations in economic terms in subsequent meetings; but for <br /> <br />now, I will confine my discussion generally to the physical factors. <br /> <br />I will discuss briefly the concepts used in California and a <br /> <br />number of areas and projects in our State at which water conserva- <br /> <br />tion research or practices are under way. I hope you will visit <br /> <br />these sites, and we would like to view practices in other states, <br /> <br />for in that way we can benefit from each other's experience and <br /> <br />develop a better understanding of our mutual problems. <br /> <br />Since this is the first presentation to the Council <br /> <br />made by California, I would like briefly to present some general <br /> <br />*Statement presented at third meeting, Western States Water Council, <br />Phoenix, Arizona, on February 19, 1966. <br />