Show 2000 A. Enough By the year areas of the West may find that water supplies have been completely placed to use within the major drainage JACK Executive Director of the Western States Water speaking before the Bountiful Exchange Club indicated that are significant new demands on western water resources brought about by the declaration of the President of the United States that this nation is to become energy The West contains most of the undeveloped energy resources of the nation and for full development of these resources to a large amount of water may be WATER resources in the State of Utah for can easily identify the need for all of the waters presently allocated to the State of Utah under the Colorado Many have hoped for water to be imported to the Wasatch Front Area through the Central Utah Project while new developments in the oil shale industry may determine that the use of Utah's limited allocation in be designated for the oil shale country of the Uintah OTHER energy industry spokesmen will be asking for some of Utah's allotment to be designated for use in the four corners area for coal fired steam electrical generating Barnett stated that the Western States Water Council was created by the eleven western Governors to provide a forum for the states to discuss collectively their water IN ADDITION to competition in the West for water the states collectively are finding that they need to take a common position with respect to state's rights as opposed to a doctrine of federal control and supremacy in this natural resources Barnett further stated that there are many examples in current proposed and enacted legislation wherein the Federal government has taken or is attempting to take the rights to control the water resources of a state away from state administration contrary to state rights and r place them under WITHOUT adequate safeguards and constant it is possible that additional inroads into state's rights might occur in the name of the national interest with respect to the need for energy resource development in western It was pointed out to Exchange Club members that the history of the West documents controversy over the right to control the water LIKE individual irrigators arguing over rights on a the stales also have been involved in litigation and legislation to further each individual state's rights to western water The subject of out-of-basin transfers has been a very controversial Because of the fears of northwestern states that the Colorado River water users would be looking to northwest rivers for additional water a moratorium to prevent federal agencies from studying the possibilities of out-of-basin diversions was entered into for a ten period starting in WITHIN this northwestern states proceed with their development and of their water resources the Central Arizona and other Colorado ROM projects were beS authorized and Barnett pointed out tM although we may he out of water given regions or the West by the year there is an abundances water in various western North large amounts of wax unused both on the west slope of the Mountains in ADDITIONAL amounts of water are ing used in Canada the Great and large volumes of water be available in the pi River before it Gulf af B |