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<br />'1 <br /> <br />.~ <br />J <br />=> <br />M <br />-::;, -8- <br />o <br /> <br />Now, how do you like that? Ev~_if. it means ruining the whole western <br /> <br />reclanation program, we'll kill it. <br /> <br />lve're going to have our way, no <br /> <br />matter what the legal rights of anybody, or the legal position of anybody <br /> <br />happens to be. <br /> <br />The future of our economy in Arizona -- and I'm going to give you <br /> <br />just a few of the facts as theY concern us -- is threatened now. Not <br /> <br />in the future, but now. <br /> <br />\Jater has made and broken our country any number <br /> <br />of times before now, and it will happen again if we don't secure the situ- <br /> <br />ation as quickly as humanly possible. Ive have the remnants and remains <br /> <br />of the Hualpai Indians who lived in our country years and :~ars ago and <br /> <br />were driven out of the country by lack of water in periodic droughts. <br /> <br />With approxirr~tely 75% of our total land area in the hands of the federal <br /> <br />government, we are up against circumstances that demand a maximum develop- <br /> <br />ment of every resource that we have. <br /> <br />To us, the waste of water that is <br /> <br />now going on in connection with the administration of Colorado River affairs, <br /> <br />is an unforgivable sin against the God who gave us this great and benefi- <br /> <br />cient river. Catch this, if you can, Imagine, three trillion gallons of <br /> <br />liquid life are flowing unused today into the Pacific Ocean and the Salton <br /> <br />Sea every year -- enough to support an urban population of 50 million people, <br /> <br />one-third of the entire nation's total, while this dastardly and unforgiv- <br /> <br />able debate goes on. This is in itself sickenin~ enough, but hardly to be <br /> <br />compared with one of the main reasons why this matter is locked in the <br /> <br />jaws of an impasse. I say this IY.Lth first hand experience, politics is <br /> <br />the anS\-ler, in addition to plain unadulterated greed. Our sister State <br /> <br />of California is large and she is powerful. Her membership in Congress is <br />