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much larger quantity of water unfit for use. The nonconsump- 

 tive use of water is of vital concern to public and private 

 groups interested in water supply, as well as to those concerned 

 with disposal of wastes and the effects of pollution on public 

 health. Their separate efforts would be more effective if they 

 could be more closely integrated. 



Several partial inventories of water use or disposal have 

 been made by Federal, state, or regional agencies. The U.S. 

 Public Health Service is maintaining an inventory of all 

 facilities for public water supply and sewage disposal through- 

 out the country. 6 The Louisiana Stream Control Commission 

 has published representative data concerning the quantity and 

 quality of water required for various industrial and agricul- 

 tural purposes, the nature and quantity of wastes, and the 

 methods of disposal. 7 The Ohio Water Resources Board has 

 shown the amount of industrial pumpage of ground water, 

 tabulated as to counties and as to specific industries. 8 The 

 Interstate Commission on the Delaware has been collecting: 

 detailed information as to the sources and quantities of pollu- 

 tion in the Delaware River since 1936 and is now engaged in 

 a major program of corrective measures and improvements 

 financed by the states and the people of the Delaware Basin. 9 

 Inventories have been made of water requirements or of water 

 pollution in many other areas, as an essential step toward 

 remedying unsatisfactory conditions. But as yet there is no 

 comprehensive inventory national in scope. 



A knowledge of the quantities of water consumed by each 

 user, of the quantity that is used and must then be disposed 

 of, and the characteristics of that disposal water, would help 



6 "Inventory of Water and Sewage Facilities in the U.S. 1945" U.S. Public 

 Health Service, 194S. 



7 Louisiana Stream Control Commission, Water Conference rept., Baton 

 Rouge, 1916, 60 pp. 



s Bernhagen, R. J., Industrial Ground-water Pumpage in Ohio, Ohio Dept. 

 of Nat. Res., Div. of Water, Bull. 11, 1919, 45 pp. 



9 lncodel, A Report on the Activities and Accomplishments of the Inter- 

 state Commission on the Delaware River Basin for the Year Ending June 30, 

 1948, Philadelphia, Pa., 1948, 47 pp.; The Delaware River Basin Water Project, 

 January 1951, 24 pp. 



