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/2." i !vJ~:\, .~. '-I?\~~/" ..-":~. -<t.! 22 Ootober 1952 ,'.'<,J PROGRESS REPORT ON DOMESTIC MiD INDUSTRIAL WATER SUPPLY (1 July - 31 September 1952) '1.:" 1, Work Group wi thi'n States. The Arkansas ':Vater Supply;~ork Group met in Little '.RO'ck on July 30 and August 19, 1952; At the first meeting .agreeinent'wa's reeched on future municipal pel' capita ....ter .use fifoures 'for ve:douspopulation €,roups for.the years 1975 arid 2000. At .the second"nieeting, the group set uptelitative urban popul"tion inore.asa: per- oentages' for all.' cities within the various econOlilic 'ai-eas 'of the State. Urban-rUral.~opul~tion estimates ~erea1so made for Bach, of the three. major draina"e basins. Another nieeting was 80beduled forOotilber7 in LittieRock for the purpose of.cpmpleting information on municipal water supply ns eds within the State of. Ark~sas. . . . '.,,; . , .." 2. Colorado and Louisiana have completed numerous industrial water use questionnaires listing, data pertaining to present use of industrial water. ' . . - . --_...~. .." .3.. The New ~Jexico Water S.upply .~iork Group met in Santar'e on July 21,1952, It was , agreed that immediate steps 'betsken on the survey of industri&l opportunity and on the matter of checking the population forecast i' 4, The Oklahoma \~ater Supply hork GroUp met in Oklahoma' City .on September 21 and 22, The group oompiled data on municipal water supply needs for all of the priority areas within the State of Oklahoma. This information, v:hich also included possible solutions, is to be submitted to the vnrious dater Use and Control Work Group meetings. 5, Hepresentati ves of the State of Louisiana met in Tulsa on September 22 wi th representatives of the Public Beal th Service, Department of Commerce, and the Cor?s of Engineers to discuss procedures for continuin~ the activities of the Louisiana \.ater Supply l'lork Group. 6. Within the State of Kansas, the Public Health Service completed arrangements to secure information on municipal water supply needs during the first part of October. 7. Federal agencies and basin-wide activity. Contract work of the Bureau of Reclamation with the Universities of Texas, Oklahorra and Kansas has continued durino the reportinb pBriod with completion anticipated in January. Some work has been reported in connection with water supply of Norman. Wichita, Pm Is Valley and Winnewood, Some additional field work has been done in the Upper Red River Basin, at Vernon, Childress, and Quanah, Texas, Frederick and Snyder, iJklahoma, in nature of searching for possible new sources of water supply. 8. The Public he&lth Service completed the rinal draft of a report entitled ''l'resent .lunicipal i\ater Use in the Arkansas-White-Red jjasins, includinb Information on Deficiencies in Supply" and a limited number of