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<br />- 3 - <br /> <br />. <br /> <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />areas. Major allied programs which will have to be incorporated <br />N <br />vu along with the salinity control program are (I) plans as developed <br />Cl <br />r~ by the Western U.S. Water Plan; (2) augmentation from weather <br /> <br />modification, geothermal, or other new water sources; (3) watershed <br /> <br />management; and (4) desalting processes. To achieve an appropriate <br /> <br />level of salinity control would require a program of total water <br /> <br />management for the Colorado River. <br /> <br />At this point I showed a few slides of some of the major sources of <br /> <br />salt contribution to the river and pointed out programs which we <br /> <br />envision for control. <br /> <br />William Savage, Assistant Director, Office of Saline Water, assisted <br /> <br />in explaining the joint OSW-BuRec proposal for a desalting facility <br /> <br />on the Wellton-Mohawk drain on the lower Colorado River. We stressed <br /> <br />(I) this proposal was limited to OSW and Bureau of Reclamat ion input <br /> <br />and did not have the endorsement at this time of the Department of <br /> <br />the Interior or the Executive Branch of the Government; (2) such a <br /> <br />program must be considered as an integral and essential component <br /> <br />of the total long-range water quality improvement program; and <br /> <br />(3) a major objective for such a program would be to improve the <br /> <br />research and technology required for future desalting systems. <br /> <br />The desalting facility envisioned would be located on the Wellton-Mohawk <br /> <br />drain and would be a staged reverse osmosis plant with an <br />