OCR Text |
Show Moss Cites Demands Of Water Supplies Large areas of the United States will need to employ new and revolutionary techniques of water resources development to meet anticipated heavy increases in future demands on limited water supplies, Senator Frank E. Moss of Utah, a member of the Senate Select Committee on National Water Resources, said in Washington. This is foreseen in a report released by Senator Robert S. Kerr, chairman of the committee. commit-tee. The report, prepared for the committee by Dr. Edward A. Ackerman of Washington, D.C., a leading water resources authority, autho-rity, as one of a series of studies of all aspects of water resource activity being undertaken by the Committee, states that growing water problems "clearly indicate a situation sometime within this century in which water requirements require-ments will cause the nation to go beyond its traditional approaches ap-proaches to water development." Senator Moss said: "Among other things this means that future water resources projects proj-ects will not be limited to the construction of dams and reservoirs reser-voirs for the conservation of river flows, as is largely the case today. Future projects will have to include measures for expanding expand-ing the reliable use of ground water plus the use of such techniques tech-niques as science can provide for opening up new supplies, Including artificial rainfall, the desalting of sea water, and the elimintaion of natural and man made contamination. "As the report anticipates, the additional procedures will become be-come desirable at an early date in the nine southwestern states, which includes Utah. Our area must begin to put to work the best techniques we know to make our water go as far as1 possible. "The report advocates the wisdom wis-dom of taking the long term view in meeting the nation's growing water problems, because be-cause any major program decision deci-sion made at the present time will set the form of development for decades to come. It emphasizes empha-sizes that federal leadership towards to-wards efficient development and use of water is vital." Senator Moss sat with the Senate Sen-ate Select Committee on National Water Resources last week. It is considering the large amount of information gathered by the committee staff, and through the nation-wide public hearings now held by the committee. A report on America's water resources in relation to demand in the years ahead will be issued about Jan. 1, 1961. Our new atomic powered missile mis-sile firing submarine costs $100,-0?0,000 $100,-0?0,000 the cost of our biggest battleship, the USS Missouri, of World War II. U. S. Savings Bonds help Uncle Sam meet the costs of protecting us against a missile war. k |