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<br />November/December, 1974
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<br />Perm,l No. 27428
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<br />wet year. Total yield of river for water
<br />users in this country and Mexico averages
<br />between 13 and 15 million acre-feet annually.
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<br />Irrigation stabilizes agricullure in California
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<br />Water projects in California have made
<br />agriculture extremely stable at increasing
<br />levels of production compared to regions
<br />where crops are grown solely on basis of
<br />the rain that falls, John Teerink, California
<br />Department of Water Resources director, said.
<br />He cited Midwest in 1974 where 160 million
<br />acres of rain-fed agriculLure were affected
<br />by drought, or about 42 per cent of entire
<br />cropland in United States. "Fortunately, in
<br />California with the vast amount of irrigated
<br />acreage, drought is not a serious problem,"
<br />Teerink said. "In the San Joaquin Valley
<br />alone, which is serviced by federal, state
<br />and local projects, water deliveries continue
<br />to increase annually to meet demand." He
<br />said deliveries from State's California
<br />Aqueduct this year are 35 per cent above
<br />deliveries made during same period in 1973.
<br />Teerink said Department of Agriculture
<br />estimates food production in the United
<br />States will be seven per cent lower in 1974
<br />than last year because of drought in Midwest.
<br />He said virtually no rain fell during June
<br />and July in regions where the monthly 30-
<br />year normal averages four inches of rain for
<br />June and three inches in July.
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<br />CR\'VUA call" for public works funding
<br />Vital need to obtain funding for public
<br />works projects in Colorado River Basin states for
<br />development of energy reserves and food needed by
<br />nation and world was outlined by key speakers at
<br />Colorado River Water Users Association annual
<br />meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada. Wyoming Governor
<br />Stanley K. Hathaway, Congressman James Johnson,
<br />of Colorado, and G1lbert Stamm, commissioner of
<br />U. S. Bureau of Reclamation, told of critical
<br />problems ahead in rapidly changing picture of
<br />energy and food needs as man relies more and more
<br />on relatively meager water resources of 1400-mile-
<br />long Colorado. CRWUA, made up of delegates from
<br />all seven Colorado River Basin states, passed
<br />resolution ur~ing rapid and continuing implemen-
<br />tation of sal1nity control works that would protect
<br />against millions of dollars in damages from sali-
<br />nity buildup in river as more water use takes
<br />place. Group also passed resolutions warning that
<br />more rivers in Western states, including White
<br />River tributary to Colorado, cannot be put into
<br />wild river status if energy resources are to be
<br />adequately developed and calling attention to
<br />danger to states' water rights from federal
<br />reserved water rights legislation proposed by
<br />U. S. Department of Justice. Governor Hathaway,
<br />keynote luncheon speaker, warned that nation is
<br />in danger of losing its democratic freedoms by
<br />failing to come to grips with staggering problems
<br />created by reliance on foreign nations for vital
<br />energy resources. He said environmentalists will
<br />have to bend in their opposition to practically
<br />every type of development program. He said things
<br />are becoming so complicated that government is
<br />hardly able to function. "About 40 per cent of
<br />the world's coal is in the United States, and the
<br />United States is blessed with oil shale which
<br />represents 17 times the known crude oil reserve
<br />in world," Hathaway said. "Somebody has to start
<br />making decisions even if they're un~opular ones at
<br />the time they're made, and h1story Judges the
<br />prudence behind them....It will do no good to climb
<br />up the mountain and look back down on what we have
<br />saved and find we're living under a different form
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