WATER 139 



PROJECTS 



1 . Find out what local watercontrol projects there are in your 

 area. Who pays for these projects? 



2. Lay out a plan for the control of stream flow in some nearby 

 river. 



3. If you had to apportion the water of the Colorado River 

 among water users, how should you do it and why? 



4. Suppose you had to lay out an irrigation district. Assume 

 that your whole class were people who would use the water 

 and land. Draw up a plan to irrigate it. 



5. Find out how the fish and waterfowl fare in your region. 

 Are they protected? If they are, who protects them and how? 



6. Make a map showing the most important stream in your 

 county and all its tributaries within the county. How many 

 square miles do they drain? If it rains 2 inches in 24 hours, 

 how many gallons of rain will fall in this watershed? 



7. After a heavy rain, find a small muddy stream. See if you 

 can locate areas of bare land from which this mud is coming. 



DEBATES 



1. Which is more just, the Colorado or the California Doc' 

 trine of water rights? 



2. Is a city justified in taking away from a farming area its 

 essential water resources, as Los Angeles took away the water 

 of the Owens Valley? 



3. Should the cost of flood and stream control be borne by the 

 federal government, the state government, or the local govern/ 

 ments, or a combination of these? 



