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nology, and all uses of water, for a long-ranfje future period. The 

 recommendations are accordingly presented in full, as follows : 



1. The Federal Government, in cooperation with the States, 

 should prepare and keep up to date plans for comprehensive water 

 development and management for all major river basins of the 

 United States. Such plans should take into account prospective 

 demands for all purposes served through water development giv- 

 ing full recognition to non-revenue-yielding purposes such as 

 streamflow regulation, outdoor recreation, and preservation and 

 propagation of fish and wildlife, and keeping in mind the ultimate 

 need for optimum development of all water resources. All prac- 

 ticable means of meeting demands should be considered. The 

 executive branch should be requested to submit plans to the Con- 

 gress in January 1962, for undertaking and completing such studies 

 in all basins by 1970. Once prepared, the plans should be brought 

 up to date periodically. Reports on individual projects submitted 

 to the Congress for authorization should specify how the project 

 fits into the comprehensive lo7ig-range program, and the range 

 of alternative purposes that might be served by the resources 

 needed for the recommended projects. 



2. The Federal Government should stimulate more active parti- 

 cipation by the States in planning and undertaking water develop- 

 ment and management activities by setting up a 10-year program 

 of grants to the States for water resources planning. A minimum 

 of about $.5 million in Federal funds should be made available 

 annually for matching by the States for use in the preparation of 

 long-range comprehensive plans for water resources development 

 along the lines recommended in No. 1 above. 



3. The Federal Government should undertake a coordinated 

 scientific research program on water. This should include both 

 research into ways to increase available supplies, and ways to 

 increase eflic^pncy in the use of water required to produce manufac- 

 tured goods and crops. The Committee recommends that existing 

 programs be strengthened by taking the following action : 



(a) Expanding the programs of basic research dealing 

 with atmospheric physics, solar activity, hydrology of ground- 

 water movement and recharge, the ]:»hysical chemistry and 

 molecular structure of water, photosynthesis, climatic cycles, 

 and other natural phenomena associated with water in all its 

 forms. Such research is essential to a major breakthrough in 

 such fields as short- and long-range weather forecfis^ino-. 

 weather modification, efficient management of undersroimd 

 reservoirs, evaporation reduction, desalinization, and pollu- 

 tion abatement, as well as to major improvements in works for 

 the storage and control of water. 



(h) Providing for a more balanced and better constructed 

 program of applied research for increasing water supplies 

 through desalinization, weather modification, and evapora- 

 tion and evap'-itran^niration rer^uctiop. 



(o) Providing for an expanded ]orogram of^ apnh'ed re- 

 search for water conservation. Special emphasis should be 

 given to research on improved waste treatment methods, on 

 ways of increasing efficiency in the agricultural use of water, 



