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<br />JOHN A.B. DILLARD <br /> <br />required, for, like it or not, we are on the threshold of art era of decision making which will have far <br />reaching consequences. The kind of decisions I am talking about are not merely water decisions, but <br />rather basic decisions as to the kind of west you propose ,to build and to support with your water re- <br />source planning. As creative management is applied, so must creative communications be employed to <br />insure public understanding and intelligent participation inthe final decisionary role. <br /> <br />Management must be the point of decision - - the focal point where control is exercised at the <br />right time, the right place, and in the right form to achieve accomplishment and to refine objectives <br />along the rocky road. Never in the history of the Colorado River Development has the Colorado Riv- <br />er Water Users Association stood in a better position to lissume the leadership for creative manage- <br />ment of their primary natural resource. I believe the time' is upon you to act in a leadership capacity <br />to unhook the problems of the Colorado River, (and parepthetically the west) - - for we live in a time <br />when the only constant is change. A clarion call is therefore indicated by this Association to all agen- <br />cies, associations and States here in the west, to assemble at a point and time of your choosing, and as <br />often as necessary, to consider in joint council the future decisions of western water'development. <br /> <br />Perhaps in this way the Central Arizona Project can move forward - - perhpas some area of <br />agreement can be achieved with the Northwest for augmentation of the Colorado - - or perhpas you <br />may discover some more desirable alternative to formulat~d positions as they now exist. At the very <br />least, your example of leadership may not fall upon ears as deaf as the North Vietnamese - - and west- <br />erners would be addressing the problems. The alternative is a grim one. As Wyoming's Governor Hath- <br />away asked on 29 July 1967 - - "Where Do We Travel Divided?" It is, indeed, a question to ponder. <br /> <br />, <br /> <br /> <br />-16- <br />