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Show PUT WATER POWER TO WORK, SAYS HOOVER Commenting on our water power resources, Secretary Hoover says: "Water is our greatest undeveloped resource. The Unii?d States has been blessed .more bountifully with water resources than any other country in the world. The time has now come when we must put all our water to work. "The first need is a new and broad national program for the full utilization utili-zation of our streams and our rivers and our lakes. We must get away from interstate litigation, sectional quarrels, politics. With a long-view, unified plan of action formulated, we can go ahead with the major engineering engin-eering tasks to bring complete use of water for inland transportation, reclamation, irrigation, flood control and power." Secretary Hoover shows that there is really no "problem" preventing the' fullest development of our water power resources, but that we must have a broad-minded program under which the states and the nation re-1 cognize the mutual rights and needs of various sections and are willing to cooperate to secure the use of water, rather than to withhold, hamper ham-per or delay water power utilization. Agriculture, industry and the individual indivi-dual will profit most by such a program. |