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" ! Or t\;)i CJ;lsidered in O~: the nation The Colorado River Basin Project legislation was being con- the COllgress at a time \-lhen \-later pollution throughout was becoming a matter of great nationaL concern and Ar..-J of 1965 ~,been enacted and importance. I was then being administered by The Water Quality Act the Secretary of the Interior. The ~atter of setting salinity standards was under consideration~and i discussions were undenmy between officials of the Pederal Water i Pollution Control Administration and representativ~of the Colorado I River Basin states. Yet, considc..ation of the two matters, "Nater I I ;;upply" and "\\Tater quality", remained separated in the Department i 6f the Interior, in the Congress, and in the Basin. The Colorado River Basin Project Act 'includes ",-later quality" s a purpose of the project but it is silent on any specific fater quality standards and no means of improving water quality r r~ducing salinity are authorized. The Act recognized, of ourse, that the Secretary was continuing the salinity studies reviously authorized. \\TA?ER QUALITY ACT of 1965 Although not considered as a part of. the "La\-l of the River, rhe\\Tater Quality Act of 1965 led directly to the enactment of the b.ost recent addition to the "Law of the River", the Colorado River asin Salinity Control Act. 'l'he \\Tater Quality Act of 1965 provided for establishment and , rnforccment of water quality standards for such interstate waters as the Colorado River System. The states of ~he basin~taking a ~egiOnal approach to compliance with this Act, agreed in 1967 I bn guidelines for formulating water quality standards. They also I I I ~ 29 ," . r , " ;i ~,_ ~.i.,,_.:,~.-