Show W water waier a t e r and power essential bases for states stated edvan expansion A report by utah water and power board in the multiple foundation for further r development for the realization of its cu 1 tural and industrial values and for tor the necessary creation of employment opportunities tile the adequacy of water supplies is incontestably most important the extension of agricultural lands and the full economic use of existing acres as demanded I 1 by national and western quire ments depend solely on the development of additional water industrialization sources with within its compounding compounding nedo needs for h hydroelectric y d roe 1 ec t r i c p dower 0 and p dro ro 0 cess ceafer water stresses Sethe the need keedo for I 1 additional development of both the expansion of communities rests largely on the securing nc of additional domestic water thus to meet its own 0 obligations b li gat i ons an and d those which if IF shares with the west and the nation utah must fully develop the water re rei sources of the state As water resulting from the falling of rain and the melting of snow at the higher elevations elevation of the upper colorado and dutary basins courses toward the sea through wyoming colo rado utah arizona new Mex co and mexico it can be made to disburse multiple benefits all the way the meager tion which characterizes the breadth of the colorado and ad joining basins must be husband ed by proper soil and cover troi by means of both large and small storage and diversion works these in combination will permit the useful regulation of stream flow otherwise wasteful and erratic As this controlled water flows along natural an and man made water courses it pro opportunity for the prodoc tion of hydroelectric e energy by the integration of plans for con troi and utilization all areas can benefit without discrimination so as to assure maximum acono mic advantage to the g greatest r calest number of people by compact the beneficial use to acre feet from the colorado water system was apportioned in pi perpetuity to both the upper basin and lower basin respectively however in order ordee to make possible the dc de livery of compact agreed water at lees ferry the divis division iori lori point on the colorado river between the upper and lower basins it will be necessary to store flows of the colorado green and trib in the upper basin this storage canno cannot t be achieved in the measure necessary except at reservoir sites principally in th the e state of utah in ad addition th production transmission ana n sale saie prim primarily 1 airily in utah of electrical energy to be generah ge at control wor work ki maini mainly in utah will provide the fin financial lal lai springboard whereby Y the anti entire re development rit kit of the upper colo col 0 rado can be made possible possible in the interest of all water contributing I 1 states in that drainage area the thu cumulative advantages thus gain cd ed to all of the upper colorado basin will permit a certain amount of diversion from the thel colorado colora d 0 an and d G green reen r rivers i vers I 1 into nto the bonneville basin in utah this can be done without impair ability to meet compact gallons at lee ferry the principle of maximum benefits be nelt to be derived from rom the use of water clearly urges such diversion to the bonneville ba sin each acre foot can thereby be ma made d e 1 to brov provide evv tvr id 1 e greater values than tai are possible without diversion the greater values of crops P thus made possible the ex Pa of 0 industries and the sale saie 10 of electrical energy all these will win redound to the econ amic betterment of utah and will strengthen the economy of neighboring states the plans of utah developed its own agencies in harmon lous ious collaboration with depart ments of the federal government admittedly loid nothing te less ss would suffice to meet the chal lenges ahead in general they involve a long range Sm program of storage diversions and ex changes of water together with the generation and trans transmission minion hydroelectric power in the bear river weber river virgin river and central utah areas most important and of the great est magnitude would be those projects involving primarily the colorado and green rivers great storage reserVOIr reservoirs 3 on both of these rivers would vide the regulation required to guarantee maximum utilization of water in the an entire tire basin baski with in compact deli dell delivery very terms other control works on the green river would make it possible to divert a certain portion of the rivers flow into the bonneville basin by a combination of trans fers and exchanges within the central utah area these complex plans involve ing the construction of large dams tunnels can canals plis vils power houses and high capacity trans i i mis mission networks cannot be ac complis hed in a short span of years the job ahead is immense but it must be started now to be of greatest use to tc future gen erat orations ions lons of westerners and their migrating neighbors from the east cast the midd lewest a and nd the south the expenditures bequir cd ed will be more than re reimbursed cursed by d direct and indar indirect e ct returns by the creation of taxable wealth and by the employment of thou ahou sands this has been cd over and over again in the major western development pr pro 0 sects so far undertaken As reservoir areas become fill ed eu and una ana as the me turbines of 01 new hydroelectric power p plants I 1 a n t s smoothly pour their generated energy into a vast transmission network the full flowering of utah s agriculture and industry can be realized and made a part of the growth of the west and of the nation |