Show Moss Chosen Chairman of Water Wafer Committee Sen Frank E E. E Moss D DUtah D. D Utah announced recently that he has been appointed chair man of a special tee of the Senate Public Works Committee the tee on western water develop meat ment I TilE THE lENT APPOINTMENT was made mado by Sen Pat McNamara D chairman of the tho Senate committee on public works Four Democrats are members memo mem bers of the new subcommittee Moss Ernest GruenIng of I Alaska Lee Metcalf o of Mon Mon- Lana tana and Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin There are two lie Re publican members a m Fong of Hawaii and James B. B Pearson of Kansas SEN MOSS 1058 is also chair man of the subcommittee on Irrigation and reclamation of the Senate committee on inter Ion and Insular affairs That subcommittee is also con corned with water resource de Sen Moss said The formation of this pub lie lic works subcommittee has been recommended to make possible studies of the feasibility of proposals to develop water resources on an inter national basis SUCH A proposal has been made by the Ralph M. M Parsons Par Par- sons Co an engineering and construction firm of Los M An geles It recommends a Joint yen ven tune ture by Canada t tho e United States and Mexico which would utilize water from the Yukon River as the basis of a conti conti- neat long redistribution that would double water supplies in states like California Utah Nevada Arizona and New o. o UT UTILIZING a navigable waterway from Vancouver to Lake Superior it would Increase In- In crease the flow through the Great Lakes Ickes Sen Moss said Americas need for water is widely rec rec- Today that need is not primarily for irrigation It Itis Itis is for water for our cities our Industries our growing recreation areas It is for dilution to abate the pollution that has reached the danger point in inmany inmany many regions of the United States The committee on interior and Insular affairs and the committee on public works are the two Senate commit tees having primary for legislation on water development and control Bills to authorize reclamation and irrigation projects are referred referred re- re to Interior those to au water pollution control programs flood control projects I and larger watershed projects s are referred merred to public works |