290 CONSERVATION OF GROUND WATER 



auspices. The areas and functions to be covered are too exten- 

 sive and affect too broad a sector of public interest to permit 

 accomplishment except through official public agencies. 



It is doubtful whether any part of the management program 

 herein described can be successfully consummated unless the 

 individual states provide the necessary mechanisms and the 

 budgets to carry out the task forever. This is not an undertak- 

 ing which can be accomplished once and then be forgotten. 

 It is a striking example of the kind of effort which demands 

 permanent and continuing scrutiny, measurement, recording, 

 and control. The venture, incidentally, would be eminently 

 unsuccessful if it did not include both in its motivation and in 

 its decisions the balancing of equities between the necessities 

 of man and the virtues as well as the vices of nature. 



A conservation program created by any state would be 

 doomed to failure if it rested upon the principle that not using 

 its water resources is a virtue. Fortunately, controlled use is 

 not inconsistent with preservation of the major water re- 

 sources of the country. 



