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Show 'AQUALANTES', MODERN VIGILANTES, : WILL PLUG COLORADO DEVELOPMENT I A drive Id enlist Westerners in a crusade to protect Western water rights began this week. The program is sponsored by a citizens group known as Uie Upper Colorado Kiver Grass Itoots ' a Committee. Its members, and nil persons who support it, are enrolling as "Aqualantes," Cv" ' '"if water vigilantes who pledge to do everything AH ml nnflt possible to insure passage by Congress of the, yAlJlJHLfllt tipper Colorado River Storage Project. Ji This vast )roject lias as its goal the trailing , .y of the unruly Colorado River by a series of I O storage dams. This storage system would en- able the Upper Basin States of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah j and Wyoming to utilize the water given to them by a compact of j 19212. It also would enable the Upper Basin States to deliver to ! C: I i fni-ii in Ai-iona and Nevada I ;he water given to those states. The project has been opposed by uninformed persons and by persons in other states with selfish motives. That is why "Aqualantes" are needed to tell the true story of this great project. Kvery citizen can become an Aqualanle merely by pledging i support of the project and sending send-ing $1 or more to his Aqualante state organization. State address ad-dress for Utah is Aqualantes, Salt Lake City. Persons who j thus join are given an Aqua- lante badge and a membership card indicating their participation. participa-tion. ' Help of all citizens is needed, because the future of the four states is dependent upon water and the Upper Colorado i River project provides for de-1 velopment of the west's last I great water source. Actually, ' it's economic life and death for I vast areas of the west. President Eisenhower has recognized this need. In his message to Congress he singled out the Upper Colorado River project as a vital program for consideration of the lawmakers. The President said, "I urge the Congress to approve the development devel-opment of the Upper Colorado River to conserve and assure better use of precious water es- sential to the future of the ' west." IThe Navajo Indian tribe has given its complete support to the project. The Tribal Council has contributed $10,000 to the ' cause. This is less than 20c 1 from each Navajo but it is a great deal of money to a destitute desti-tute people. They contributed because the project will give them a chance to help themselves. them-selves. To dramatize their interest, the Navajos will stage a war dance the f rst in nearly 100 years at Window Rock, Ariz., on Monday, Jan. 24. You can join this crusade for the water that is rightfully yours by joining the Aqualantes. Aqua-lantes. Send your contribution now. Meanwhile, learn about the project. Tell your friends in other parts of the country about it. It's a project to help you. |
