Show New Source of Water Needed for the Colorado WASHINGTON DC A case was made Tuesday for the policy of augmenting the flow of the Colorado River during the opening session of hearings s son on proposed bills to authorize the Central Arizona Project Sen Frank E E Moss 1 D Utah said in a prepared state state- statement ment that the struggle of the thelast thelast last fifty years for the waters of the Colorado River will not he be solved without finding new sources of water While schem schem- schemes es such as weather modification might someday be possible no noone noone one can plan to irrigate with wilh that attI and the need for forI I safer atE in the Colorado River sy- sy system system stem is now immediate THE UTAH Democrat long a champion of redistribution distribution of surplus water from one river basin to another or 01 on a con can basis continued by slating that a study of water I importation must ho he part and parcel of any new projects in inthe inthe the Lower Colorado River Bas Bas- Basin in in basin Inte Inte basin transfer of water has I Ileen een transformed into some sort Olt of scare word in some quarters There is nothing un un- unique ique in transfers Colorado River water waler is now b ing transferred into the Mis Mis- Missouri River Basin into the Rio Grande River Basin and into the Great Basin Thee Thele should be nothing startling in the pro pro- proposal to bring water either ither from the Columbia or Northern flow of the Colorado River In- In Indeed deed one could say that the nerd need for fOl tile the importation is to satisfy the treaty obligations with Mexico J not to meet any new uses Therefore importation i o lion tion would be to meet a national obligation not a state or regional obligation Sen Moss J said SEN MOSS has proposed leg leg- legislation which is under consid consid- consideration of the Senate hearings which would look first at streams for their sources of im- im importation im to other river basins either by exchange or direct transfer of the water Sen Moss 1 also said that utah's position is that the Ute Indian Unit of the Central Utah Project be given a priority in planning so that tune the report on the unit will be completed by 1972 Ile also said that the Dix Dix- Dixie ie Project in southern Utah should be made n a part of the Lower Basin Dasin bill and should benefit from any lower basin fund established by Congress |