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<br />, <br /> <br />nD321f1 <br /> <br />-7. <br /> <br />Unfortunately there is not sufficient detailed information available <br /> <br /> <br />on weather modification in the Platte River Basin on which to base a firm <br /> <br /> <br />prediction as to the amount of additional water which could be made available <br /> <br /> <br />through cloud nucleation. Further research is needed to determine the <br /> <br /> <br />feasibility and practicability of this comparatively new technique. <br /> <br /> <br />Obviously the only way in which a cheap and economically sound <br /> <br /> <br />desalination prdcess of salt water could favorably affect the South Platte <br /> <br /> <br />Basin in Colorado would be through a modification of the Colorado River <br /> <br /> <br />Compact with California whereby California would utilize sea water obtained <br /> <br /> <br />cheaply and release more Colorado River water to the Upper Basin States <br /> <br /> <br />which in turn might permit further transmountain diversions. <br /> <br /> <br />In all probability no single factor can have a greater influence <br /> <br /> <br />upon the' future o'fthe water resources of the Bas in than the intell igence <br /> <br /> <br />exercised in present as well as future management of watersheds and the <br /> <br /> <br />water which they supply. <br /> <br /> <br />From the southern tip of the Park Range in Southwestern Park County to <br /> <br /> <br />the apex of the Continental Divide crossing the Colorado-Wyoming border <br /> <br /> <br />there is a 'vast water-producing area. Multiplicity of use such as <br /> <br /> <br />recreation, grazing, mining and timbering has created a problem of management, <br /> <br /> <br />both present and, future, which is extremely complex. <br /> <br /> <br />The balanc~ of usage which is to be, or should be. maintained in <br /> <br /> <br />order to make full use of the resources involved on a sustained yield basis <br /> <br /> <br />must be considered. <br /> <br /> <br />Recreation is rapidly becoming one of Colorado's major sources of <br /> <br /> <br />revenue. In 1956 it was estimated that 3,878,000 visitors spent $225,000,000' <br /> <br /> <br />in the State. According to the Bureau of Business Research of the University <br /> <br /> <br />of Colorado, if the annual rate of increase since 191\.) contin'Jes, hy 1965 <br /> <br />,",-<...'0-' <br /> <br />