Show Gambling on the Weather SALT CALT LAKE CITY and Uncle Sam must have havethe havethe havethe the Deer Creek aqueduct to insure an adequate adequate ade ade- quate supply of water for the city's people and the governments government's various war projects ts in this area That fact seems at last to to have have- been accepted by government authorities at Wash Wash- ington Recently priorities for critical materials needed to finish the Weber-Provo Weber canal which Is the major source of water for Deer Creek were approved And now it is reported from Washington there is every reason to believe that similar approval of priorities for construction construction con con- of the aqueduct will ill be granted Both the canal and the aqueduct are essential essential essential es es- es- es to solving Salt Lakes Lake's and Uncle Sams Sam's joint water problems Uncle Sam is very di directly directly directly di- di interested in the canal because it will make available the water needed for the new steel plant But the canal will also make available a large supply of new water for Salt Lake City City and and both the city and the government need that water delivered in Salt Sale Lake to assure that in a dry year there will be no water shortage in the homes factories war plants and mili military ary projects now supplied supplied supplied sup sup- plied through the city water system Just how serious the city's water situation might be without Deer Creek water few people people people peo peo- realize We all know how bad the situation situation situation situa situa- tion was in 1934 Well if next year we should have another year like 1934 the s situation would be far more serious because our water demand next year is estimated cOI conservatively as 30 per cent more than it was in 1934 As Asa a matter of fact we wouldn't have to have nearly as bad a a drouth year as 1934 to have havea a water shortage next year ear The only answer is completion of the aqueduct aqueduct aqueduct aque aque- duct just as quickly as possible Without it we are just gambling on the weather weather and and that as any farmer or picnicker knows is pretty risky business |