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o ,- ~ N ~ a"J W '':;'1 1. INTRODUCTION The 1975 Assessment of water and land reeources is for the purpose of identifying and describing the Nation's eevere water problems and indicating the urgency of their resolution from a national .and State-Regional veiwpoint. The Assessment is conducted by the U. S, Water Resources Council in cooperation with Federal and State representatives within functions assigned to it by the Congress under provisions of the Water Resources Planning Act of 1965 (Public Law 89-90). During February 1974 the Water Resources Council initiated the 1975 Assessment of Water and Land Resourcee throughout the United States. The Assessment has three main parts or analyees. First, is the nation-wide analysis performed by Federal agencies to develop a nationally consistent set of volumetric and non-volumetric data covering the entire United States and broken down in detail for 106 ASA's in 21 Assessment Regions, including narrative and numerical information; second, is the Specific Problem Analysis performed by Regional Sponsors with assistance of State representatives, and regional representatives of Federal agencies in each of_ the 21 regions for the purpose of articulating the State-Regional viewp~i~t concern- ing water-related problems and for providing information.~or use in the National Assessment report; and third,. is a national priorities analyeis for articulating priorities for reeolving identified water problems and documenting same from.a national viewpoint, including summaries of the State-Regional conclusions and recommendatione documented during the Specific Problem Analysis phase performed by the State-Regional sponsors, The Specific Problem Analysis portion of the Assessment includes four separste documents, The first document,.identified as Technical Memorandum No.1, includes listing of problems throughout the AWR Region. The second document is identified as s Technical Memorandum on Activity 2, Phase II, covering State-Regional Futures and Problems Lists. The third document, identified as Activity 3, Phase II, is a Technical Memorandum covering the analyeis of problems identifoed by the Regional Sponsor, including determination of the probable a~veree and/or bene- ficial effects if severe water and related land problems are not solved from the State-Regional Future vieW?oint. This is the fourth and final document or formal report of the Arkansas-White-Red Basins Inter-Agency Committee (the Regional Sponsor for the AWR Region) covering the Arkansas-White-Red Region which eum- marizes the State-Regional Futures as seen by the Regional Sponsor. 5