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Show Water Problems Aired At Ftlonday Meeting George D. Clyde, director of the Utah Water and Power Board, and Parley Neely, engineer engi-neer for the Bureau of Reclamation, Reclama-tion, very thoroughly informed a group of interested Basin citizens cit-izens as to the status of the Echo Park Dam, the Central Utah Project, and water problems prob-lems generally throughout the state, at a public meeting held at the American Legion Barracks Bar-racks Monday night. Horace Allred, member of the 21-County committee, and a local lo-cal water authority, conducted the meeting and introduced both men. Mr, Clyde was the first speaker and gave a very comprehensive com-prehensive talk on water and its related importance to land and the development of this part of the country, as well as the West. In his analysis of the water-problems water-problems and agriculture, Mr.-Clyde Mr.-Clyde pointed 'out that this is the most critical point in man's"- ' history, so far as Utah is con-- . cerned, and especially the Basin. Ba-sin. He suggested five import' ant factors that must be considered con-sidered in successful irrigation. (1) Water supply and physical control; (2) How much water is required; (3) How can it be applied; ap-plied; (4) Drainage, and (5) Organization. Or-ganization. He gave several reasons why (Continued On Back Page) Water Problems . . , (Continued from Page 1) California is fighting the Upper ' Colorado River project, and all of them simply boiled down ' to "pure selfishness." He gave figures on the amount of elec- ' tricity generated at Boulder Dam by water that belongs to I the upper states, as one reason for the "selfishness" of Califor- I ma. Mr. Neely went into the phy- sical aspects of the Central Utah Project and showed the group where small reservoirs will be built, and explained the I elevations canals would be built to drain water from the Uintas I and carry it to Central Utah. Water taken from the upper water sheds of the Basin will be replaced with water from the Colorado if and when the ' projects are built. 1 Mr. Clyde expressed hopeful- ' ness as to the outcome of the I present battle on Echo Park in ' Washington, but urged local cit- i izens to keep eternally vigilant ' and active in various programs i used to boost the project. He was complimentary to the Basin i delegation that went back to Washington, and praised the lo- i cal letter-writing campaign, car- I ried on by the various clubs in j the area. |