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0175 COLORADO RIVER ASSOCIATION V' 417 South Hill Street, Room 929 Los Angeles, California ~13 Phone: 626-462'\E~tE~~t'6\UJ ..lIL 261965 COLO. WATER CONSERVATION BOARD July 22, 1965 IMMEDIATE RELEASE "Search for the best regional plan to augment the supply of '<l3ter in the Pacific Southwest and to seek that plan's early implementation," was described today as a major objective of the Colorado River Board of California in its annual report to Gov. Edmund Brown, the first such report made. Raymond R. Rummonds of Coachella, State Colorado River Commissioner and chairman of the Board, also emphasized the negessity for protecting existing uses of Colorado River water, as well as for providing benefits to areas of surplus water from which transfers to the arid Southwest might be made. The report reviews the history of the Board and its many accomplishments since it was formed in 1937. It also contains a review 6fsix suggestions already m~de for projects by which water surplus in areas outside the basin of the Colorado River might be moved to supplement that overcommitted stream. Legislation now pending in Congress which concerns development of the Lower Basin also provides for a study by Secretary bf the Interior Stewa:=t Udall t.o evaluate these and other proposals for the purpose of pern.i.tting Congress to select the most feasible one. W3ter shortage is forecast for major parts of Arizona, California, Color3do, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming, all of which growing States depend in varying degree upon the river which now is the only major stream in the nation that is completely utilized, discharging no fresh water to the sea. -hbr-