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The water studied was that of the San Juan River, a northwestern New Mexico tributary of the Colorado River. Under the interstate compacts apportioning the water among the basin states, New Mexico has been allocated 838,000 acre-feet annually of the San Juan's flow, Up to now, about 90 per cent of this \\Tater has gone unused. Because of the proximity of its origins to the Rio Grande Basin on the eastern slopes of the Continental Divide, it has been proposed that part of New Mexico's share of the San Juan River be diverted from the San Juan Basin to the Rio Grande Basin. The remainder would be retained in the San Juan Basin for agricultural, industrial, and domestic consumption. The place and the way in which the water is used will strongly influence the future level of employment opportunity within the state. The task of the committee was to find answers to these questions: (1) Will other uses of water yield greater employment and higher income to the state than the traditional pattern of reclamation agriculture: If SO, what uses, in what proportion? (2) \Vhat proportion of the unallocated water of the San Juan must be used within the San Juan Basin and its environs? How will use of water in the basin of origin compare ill benefits to the state with use in the Rio Grande valley~ which is the economic heart of the state? Eight hypothetical situations were set UP, four assuming a transmountain diversion of 110,000 acre-feet and four for 235,000 acre-feet. Alternative patterns of use for each level of diversion were projected and analyzed. These involved high Dr low irrigatjon, high or low municipal and industrial use (including mining), and presence or absence of an allocation to flsh and wildlife. A preliminary report issued this summer by Nathaniel Wollman, direc- tor of the New l\lexico project, gives promise that the flnal document will be found useful at least in the other five states of the Southwest. - A century of water resources administration in the state of Florida is being examined in a study conducted by John l\J. DeGro",'e, assistant professor of political science at the University of Florida. The study is being made under a grant of $3,750 to the University of Florida. The period 1845-1947 has seen many attempts to develop water resource programs of various types in the state. These programs, especially in central and southern Florida, have involved joint federal-state-Iocal effort. The study will attempt to analyze the forces that determine the character of water resOllrce de","elopment in Florida. If successful in this, it should provide a practical foundation for understanding Florida's present and future water resource needs and the administrative patterns that are most likely to answer them. Mr. DeGrove is completing another project closely related to the larger Florida water administration study. It is a case study of a specific phase 16