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<br />4 <br /> <br /> <br />Un In'); <br />U 1.0f.o1l.:' <br /> <br />defeats the objectives of wise use <;>f water and handicaps economic <br /> <br />growth. There is a ~eed to ,eliminate or at least m'itigate wat,er <br /> <br />wastage wherever it may occur in, a river basin. <br /> <br />C6mplete utilization of the natural resources of the range re- <br /> <br />quires that suitable water be available alld so distributed that the <br /> <br />range can be 'utilized withoqt undu,e travel by the animals,. <br />, ' <br /> <br />Vast areas of all the Sout,hwestern States are suitable for con- <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />trolled grazing but for fulland effective utilization many stock-water <br /> <br />facilities are essential., Over thlil past century" many developments <br /> <br />have been made, but many more will be required for complete utili- <br /> <br />zation of the range. Water sources currently being developed b;lc1ude <br /> <br />springs, wells, and run~ff from treated areas, but' probably the <br /> <br />largest number of new facilities is obtained by constructing pond,s or <br /> <br />taUks to catch and store surface runoff. During the past 'few years <br /> <br />and with the coming of modern constr'fction equipment, low-,cost, <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />stock ponds have been built with ~uch ease and rapidity that the <br /> <br />number' of new ones appearing on some of the drainages in our range <br /> <br />a,reas is phenomenal. <br /> <br />Where precipitation is relatively low, it is possible to con- <br /> <br />struct so many ponds On a drainage that very little surface runoff will <br /> <br />pccur. This may be de/lirable'in some localities where people have <br /> <br />developed neither a water right nor an economy dependent upon the <br /> <br />'" <br />