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Initial Plan Accomplishments The Initial Plan will constitute an impressive step forward in eliminating present water deficiencies and in providing new water supplies to meet growing demands in the Pacific Southwest. It will not provide an overall solution to the region's total future needs. This can only be accomplished through long-range, comprehensive regional planning. It will, however, accomplish the following: 1. Meet the most immediate and urgent water needs of the Pacific Southwest and provide time in which to work out comprehensive solutions for long-range needs. 2. Provide the setting, point the direction, and create the means whereby comprehensive, long-range plans can be developed to make and keep the Pacific Southwest water sufficient. 3. Establish a development fund that is essential as the financial foundation of future Pacific Southwest water development. 4. Protect the extensive economies that have been developed in the Pacific Southwest and which are dependent upon the continuation of the availability of 7.5 million acre-feet of water for consumptive use from the Lower Colorado River. 5. Assure maximum utilization of existing water supplies through water salvage, waste water renovation, and related measures. 6. Provide for authorization of several urgently needed water and power developments that have been long delayed. 7. Enhance the well-being and economic status of the many American Indians living in this area. 8. Provide means for meeting the rapidly expanding needs for water-oriented outdoor recreation. 9. Provide necessary facilities for the conservation and development of fish and wildlife, including urgently needed wintering waterfowl habitat in the Pacific flyway. Public fishing and hunting opportunities will be expanded to meet ever-increasing demands. 10. Provide the climate in which past controversies can be set aside, and all who would be so vitally affected by the common spectre of future water shortages can move forward in resolution of the region's water problems in a united, effective approach. 27Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 13,719,552 byte