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Show Problems Are Many .... KiwanisSponsoredWaterfleet Attracts Nearly 60 Basinites Under the sponsorship of the Roosevelt Kiwanis approximately approximate-ly 60 men who are vitally interested in-terested and affected by water in the Uintah Basin, heard a comprehensive and informative discussion of water problems in Utah as well as the Basin, at the Frontier Grill Cafe last night. The featured speaker on the program was Parley Neeley, engineer en-gineer for the Bureau of Reclamation, Recla-mation, who has been directing studies and surveys of water in the Uintah Basin for a great many years, and whose staff is currently working on the Central Cen-tral Utah Project and other reclamation rec-lamation projects designed to aid the general water and land problems in the state. Mr. Neeley went into facts and figures as to water uses and losses; costs and time limits on construction, and many phases of the tremendous water problems prob-lems that face the states in the west. He told how the Upper and Lower Basin states were set up by compact in 1922, then later the Colorado River compact com-pact that divided the water states on the Colorado were en- titled to. Utah can have access to 1,700,000 acre feet, which is about 23 of the total, and is using about one-third of it at the present time, the speaker pointed out. Mr. Neeley was introduced by Elmer Yergensen, member of the Agricultural and Conservation Conserva-tion committee of the Kiwanis club, who repeated the 1953 UBIC slogan, "Guard Our Water Rights and Develop the Uintah Basin's Thirsty Acres," which became the theme of Mr. Neel-ey's Neel-ey's discussion. "Keep your eyes on the horizon that extends down the river and across all of Utah, if we will guard intelligently intel-ligently our water rights," he said. "If Utah expects to guard her water rights and effectively use its water resources, then we must establish a competent and enthusiastic water commission, the parallel of Colorado, and work for those things we know must come," Mr. Neeley said in concluding his remarks. The water program was in keeping with annual Farmers' Night, when each Kiwanian invites in-vites a farmer as his guest. President Carl Harrison presided presid-ed over the meeting and announced an-nounced the club will go to Vernal next Thursday for an inter-club meeting as a part of of a contest between the two groups on attendance. |