Show Opinions Differ WASHINGTON Scare stories to the effect that the with its rapidly rising is headed for a critical water shortage may spring from definitions of water This is indicated by testimony presented at hearings on water problems by a House Government Operations The Chamber of Commerce of the United States is making available certain significant excerpts from this testimony in an effort to stimulate a wider understanding of the Excerpts from recent testimony show strikingly how different definitions of what constitutes water consumption affect forecasts concerning a future water Below are Assistant Secretary of Education and Welfare James M. Quigley present use of water is billion gallons a and estimates that our use in 1980 will be near billion gallons and our use in the year 2000 will be about triple the present This will be considerably more than we can expect on a dependable year-round Albert von Frank of the Manufacturing Chemists Association had a different approach to the He for the estimates indicate the nation can develop a water supply for normal use of billion gallons Current consumption for all purposes is 80 billion gallons nad is expected to be more than billion gallons daily by the year |