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Summary of Pacific Southwest Water Plan as Proposed in August 1963 Report As a background to a resume of the comments made by the individual States and agencies, a brief summary of the Pacific Southwest Water Plan as presented in the Task Force report of August 1963 is in order. The August 1963 report presented a new approach to solving the water problems of the Pacific Southwest. It proposed that the old divergent paths be discarded and that a regional approach be adopted that would end competitive struggle among States and assure the development of water to meet the burgeoning demands of the next 25 years or until about the year 1990. The Task Force report proposed an "immediate action" program for early authorization and a "continuing project development" program, as Phases I and II, respectively. Phase I proposed that a Pacific Southwest Development Fund be established with the defined purpose of underwriting both proposed and future Pacific Southwest water developments. Phase I included, among other proposals, a water salvage program on the Lower Colorado River to salvage for beneficial use almost 700,000 acre-feet now lost annually. Bridge Canyon and Marble Canyon Projects on the Colorado River were proposed to produce hydroelectric power that, in addition to providing energy for project pumping, would have provided vital revenues to the Development Fund from commercial energy sales. Hoover and Parker-Davis Projects also would have contributed revenues after completion of their repayment obligations. Phase I included construction of the Central Arizona Project to import 1.2 million acre-feet of water into central Arizona; an incremental enlargement of the California State Water Project Aqueduct to convey 1.2 million acre-feet of water annually and a second incremental enlargement of the Tehachapi Mountains segment to convey an additional 1.2 million acre-feet of water annually into the Pacific Southwest from future development of surplus North Coast waters. The plan further proposed the construction of the first stage of the Southern Nevada Water Supply Project in Nevada; Hooker Dam and Reservoir in New Mexico as part of the Central Arizona Project; and the Dixie Project in Utah. Additional developments were proposed for Indian irrigation projects in Arizona, California, and Nevada; for tributary projects in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah; and for outdoor recreation and fish and wildlife. In recognition of the great promise indicated for desalting processes to deliver almost unlimited water supplies to meet future growth needs of the Southwest, a 50-million-gallon-per-day demonstration desalting plant was proposed for construction on the coastal area of southern California. 2Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 13,737,984 byte