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OuH:3/, . on Water Resources and the field committees consisting of the seven federal agencies, of Defense, Interior, Agriculture, Labor, Commerce, Federal Power Commission, Health, Welfare and Education, and the governors and their representatives, in each of the following: Missouri Basin Inter-Agency Committee, The Arkansas-Red White Inter-Agency Committee, and the Pacific Southwest Inter-Agency Committee. ", If ground water is declared tributary to the stream, then ground water use may affect the administration of the numerous interstate water compacts to which Colorado is a party, particularly on the Arkansas River, the South Platte River and the Rio Grande River. Independent federal agencies which have an interest in ground water are the Farm Credit Administration and the Federal Power Commission. , Semi-official agencies with an interest in ground water include the following: The Colorado Water Congress, the Watershed Conservation associations, the Ground Water Users Associations, the well protective associations and the well drillers association. .' In addition, the local rural electrification associations, the investor owned power companies, the Colorado Farm Power Council and the mutual ditch comp anies have a large stake in ground water re- sources. Colorado State University through its cooperation with the U. S. D. A. extension service and experiment station has made a great contribution to ground water knowledge. Colorado University, Colorado State University and Colorado School of Mines through the Western Re- sources Conference have considered ground water problems. '. Most important are the problems of the people themselves. Here we have the whole realm of public opinion, the knowledge of the body politic, the need of widespread information, the requisite of general understanding by the individual pump owner of the scientific facts and the understanding by the scientists and experts, local, state and federal, of the individual and his problems. Just as withdrawal of water from an aquifer by a pump may be felt in some degree throughout the entire aquifer, so each of the problems in the scientific, legal, public adminis- tration, and public relations fields affects in some degree not only all the problems in the same field, but the problems in every other field. . It is obvious that your consultants, the advisory committee, and - 6 -