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<br />"- <br /> <br />N <br />~ <br />OJ <br />c.n <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />~ l..w <br /> <br />ARIZONA'S GROWTH TO THE YEAR 2000 <br /> <br />11th Annual Conference August 4-6, 1982 <br />Governor's Commission on Arizona Environment <br />Flagstaff, Arizona <br /> <br />******************************************************************************* <br /> <br />"Questions Facing Water Users in the Colorado River Basin <br />and Effects on Ari zona I s Growth" <br /> <br />Dr. Roger Eldridge, Research Director <br />Colorado Commission on Higher Education <br /> <br />******************************************************************************* <br /> <br />Thank you very much for the honor of being made part of this conference. I <br />am glad to see this and other signs of greater communications between our two <br />states on mutual concerns. As a water specialist from Colorado, I must admit <br />that I'm a little jealous of Arizona's accomplishments in producing a State <br />Water Plan in 1975, and passing the Groundwater Management Act in 1980. Even <br />though we in Colorado have a better Drought Response Plan perhaps, we have <br />fussed for nine years over what kind of State Water Plan we ought to have, with <br />no product in sight. Nor do we have the valuable discussions you folks have <br />in this Commission; our industry and water and environmental groups tend to <br />meet off to themselves, instead of rubbing shoulders and ideas in shared <br />meetings like you do. <br /> <br />, <br />.' <br /> <br />But I'm a little nervous about being put on a panel of experts. I know too <br />much about experts! That's my stock and trade in Colorado. My favorite New <br />Yorker cartoon is of a struggling man in the hot desert crawling over a dune <br />and seeing four learned-looking people sitting at a table. He exclaims, "Thank <br />God, a panel of experts!" To remi nd me of how wrong experts can be, I keep a <br />newspaper story from 1974 on our offi ce wa 11 that states "Gold to Stabili ze <br />Nea r $200". Thi s same expert hit the jackpot twi ce in the same i ntervi ew by <br />claiming that the mines we Yankees build in El Salvador are well received! <br /> <br />There are two basic varieties of experts: those who specialize in what we know <br />and those who specialize in what we don't know. My specialty is what we don't <br />know because I figure that way I'll always have work. Any kind of expert should <br />not try to tell more than is asked for. My twelve year old reminded me of this <br />last month when he heard me talking about this meeting and the problem of salin- <br />ity in the Colorado River. David asked, "What's salinity?" So I explained TDS, <br />or total dissolved solids that are made up of the positive atoms like calcium, <br /> <br />, ,; <br />j.J <br />r,;:] <br />,1:7_ ,,,.,i&: '-4~,__!~.idI <br />