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<br />/ <br /> <br />.\ <br />0183 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />CO~ORADO RIVER ASSOCIATION <br />417 South Hill Street, Room 929 <br />Los Angeles, California 90013 <br />Phone: 626-4621 <br /> <br />October 11, 1965 <br /> <br />n~DIA~E RE~EASE <br /> <br />Expectation that final figures will show that the Colorado <br /> <br />River produced 18,000,000 acre-feet of water during the past 12 months <br /> <br />today was hailed as good news by hydrologists of the Colorado River <br /> <br />Board of California. <br /> <br />Last year the comparable figure was only 8,600,000. The <br /> <br />average for all water years (Oct.-Sept.) since 1922 is 13,700,000, <br /> <br />says Dallas Cole, Chief Engineer of the Board. <br /> <br />Water in storage now totals 28,300,000 acre-feet. Last year <br /> <br />at this time there was only 2l,600,000 in Colorado River reservoirs. <br /> <br />"While cond1.tions are improved," said Cole today, "the <br /> <br />capability of the river to supply the needs of growing populations <br /> <br />in all seven States of the basin is limited. More people surely are <br /> <br />j <br /> <br />coming. More water than the river ever has supplied is certain to <br /> <br />be needed within the 25 years it takes to negotiate, plan, finance <br /> <br />and build projects of the size needed to provide for the common <br /> <br />future of all Colorado River Basin States, including California. <br /> <br />"We must get started at once on an inventory of water supplies <br /> <br />\ <br /> <br />which are surplus to needs in other rivers so that we can make plans <br /> <br />and take action to get that water into the dry Southwest where we <br /> <br />shall need it so badly." <br /> <br />-hbr- <br />