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ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON WATER QUALITY IN PACIFIC SOUTHWEST INTER-AGENCY COMMITTEE AR~A, 1950-63. INTRODUCTION f. This bibliography has been compiled for Federal, State, and local resources planning and development agencies. It wil I serve as an index of significant reports directed to specific water-quality problems and a catalog of reports presenting data, results, and conclusions on water-quality conditions within the Pacific Southwest Inter-Agency Committee area. ~ Water quality is construed for the purposes of this report to encompass the chemical, physical, radiological, and biological characteristics of ground and surface water supplies and of waste waters. The bibliography includes published and unpublished reports on water quality which have been issued by Federal, State, and local agencies and by, educational institutions during the period January I, 1950 through December 31, 1960. A few particularly noteworthy reports prior to 1950 are cited when such represent a significant contribution to water quality knowledge in the region. The bibliography also includes entries of data compilations and data reports which are part of a regular series such as the annual water-quality reports of the Geological Surveyor the Public Hea I th Service.. ~ ... Articles and reports presenting research findings or dealing with water-quality criteria are omitted from th,e bibliography. Also excluded are reports on methodology or techniques pertaining to water quality, research papers on basic water properties, and reports on treatment practices, either of water or of wastes. No reports dealing with effects of water quality on aquatic life, animals, or humans, or with water- quality tolerances for domestic, agricultural or industrial uses are included. Sedimentation aspects are excluded. Unpublished records of an "administrative" character are also not included. Indexed reports are arranged in a numbered chronological listing of publications and then cross-referenced (using its preceding number) by geographical areas and also by primary subject matter. The smal lest geographic areas listed in the index are States. River basins are broken down into subbasins in comformi ty with the River Basin Maps compiled under the auspices of the Inter-Agency Committee on Water Resources, Subcommittee of Hydrology (Hydrologic Activities Bul I. No. I I), Apri I 1961. Wh ere feasib I e and appropriate, the bib I iographic references have been annotated to further clarify the report content. ~ . 4