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need was greater than that of Connecticut. The most significant 

 thing about that decision was this fact: the Supreme Court had 

 decided in favor of Boston for a reason, greater need, which had 

 up until then been applied to water problems only in the arid 

 West. 



Within individual states the making of plans for the use of 

 water is a comparatively simple matter. It depends on whether 

 or not the state legislature under the limitations of the state 

 constitution wants to pass laws regulating the use of water. 

 Such laws pave the way for community water control projects. 

 In the South few states have such laws, while states like New 

 York and Ohio regulate water very closely. In Ohio, for in" 

 stance, the state permits various communities to create con' 

 servancy districts. The Miami Conservancy District of Dayton 

 is an example of this. Dayton and other affected towns and 

 counties, with state authorisation, have taken over control of 

 the Miami River. It has constructed dams to control floods 

 and it has purchased and managed lands in the watershed to 

 prevent the silting of these dams. 



As we have seen, state plans alone cannot solve the main 

 water problems. In an attempt to find a regional solution, some 

 states have formed interstate agreements to control the use of 

 water. One such agreement is the Ohio River Interstate Stream 

 Conservation Agreement, which was drafted in 1924. The pur' 

 pose of this agreement is to prevent pollution of interstate 

 streams and promote their conservation. Ohio, Pennsylvania, 

 and eight other states now have accepted this plan. This kind 

 of agreement permits the various states to work out a joint 

 plan, but it has no provisions to enforce the carrying out of 

 the plan. 30 For that reason representatives of these states are 

 working out an agreement which will provide for power to 

 enforce the regulations. 



A second type of state water planning is the interstate com' 



30 Rational Resources Board Report, op. cit., p. 380. 



