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<br />~ <br />o <br />o <br />CJt <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />- <br />'''-~' <br /> <br />-- <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />thrusts of the Salinity Control Forum and the Federal Government <br /> <br />is the use of saline water for industrial purposes, such as power <br /> <br />plant cooling and slurry pipelines. An interesting question is <br /> <br />raised as to whether, under the present law in Colorado, saline <br /> <br />water can be used for interstate slurry pipeline purposes. <br /> <br />What does the future hold? My crystal ball is just as <br /> <br />clouded as anyone else's, but it appears that the record indi- <br /> <br />cates at least two things: <br /> <br />1. The Colorado River Basin states have been able to hold <br /> <br />the line against federal regulations which would cripple develop- <br /> <br />ment and which would make it impossible to utilize waters of the <br /> <br />Colorado River apportioned to the states but which have not yet <br /> <br />been put to use. <br /> <br />2. History has demonstrated that the Colorado River Basin <br /> <br />states can, when the issue is important, cooperate. <br /> <br />The uninimity with which the Colorado River Basin states has <br /> <br />moved since 1972, when the blow fell in the form of Minute 242, <br /> <br />has been extremely heartening, and shows that the Lower Basin <br /> <br />states are not always opponents of the Upper Basin states. The <br /> <br />Lower Basin states realize full well that the salinity control <br /> <br />measures will enable the Upper Basin states to utilize more of <br /> <br />their water' than could be utilized if the salinity control <br /> <br />measures were not in place. <br /> <br />This could very well be inimical to <br /> <br />the best interests of the Lower Basin states, were it not for the <br /> <br />fact that the salinity of the colorado River is extremely da'Tlaging <br /> <br />to the water users in the Lower Basin states. They ca'Tle to the <br /> <br />- 2 5- . <br />