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<br />CARL H. BRONN <br /> <br />My reaction is to recall a statement to the delegates at our recent Spokane Convention. As I <br />read this to you, please note that the advice was given weeks before the recent Senate action on <br />water quality and water quantity. <br />Quoting Senator Bible- <br />"Your association, and all those involved in water resource development, must adopt procedures <br />to attract broader public appeal. It is important to work in behalf of the individual project <br />essential to your area and region, but a national goal is equally important, By this I mean a <br />solid front of ideas and philosophies aimed at producing the ultimate level of funding to assure <br />the orderly advance of projects nationwide, as did the advocates of water pollution control." <br /> <br />This Association, as well as executives representing individual States, has suggested to the <br />National Water Commission that the program approach used for water quality (and other programs) <br />might, in the National interests, be applied also to water quantity. <br /> <br />Quotes from Senators Bible and Ellender, the Appropriations Committee report, and Senator <br />Jordan's Convention paper on a revolving fund, together suggest to you that: <br />The States develop prospective water resource techniques toward balance among resource pro. <br />grams, and with other programs depending upon resources. The technique might include a <br />prospective annual funding program for water projects related, percentagewise, to the Federal <br />budget-or to gross national product. ' <br /> <br />,16- <br />