Show JIM Wafer Probably the most damning indictment of our present wasteful national water policy ever to be written has just been turned over to President Truman's new Water Resources Policy according to the Wildlife Management An committee of the Engineers Joint representing the country's five major prepared the which is couched In sharply worded language-About one-third of the committee members have served with federal and the authority of the report is Nine task forces made the basic The report deplored and federal policies concerning flood and other water resources Warning that of project is the first the report attacked and log-rolling in stressing such items as local need for equitable allocation of and the of incentive to landowners for soil conservation Although the report did not direct itself to the activities of any one it cited the fact that the Department of the Corps of Department of Federal Power U.S. Public Health Weather Coast and Geodetic and many others are concerned with one phase or another of water As the number of federal agencies involved has grown and these have risen in stature their overlapping functions have become increasingly striking and their competition have become impressively The present situation is described as Haphazard development of vital water resources was denounced by the engineers who especially decried projects developed and and often by the agency originating To alleviate competition between which is fostered by this and to safeguard the public against exaggerated intangible benefit claims as well as improper allocation of costs between general taxpayers and project the report recommended creation of a board for the impartial analysis and appraisal of all federal water Such a board would also serve to protect the public against present excessive and economically rate of planning and congressional authorizing of since the board's review would be to the authorization of appropriation by congress of or for projects of this AAA |