Add to ORKG"The Pacific Southwest Water Plan provides the framework under which projects to provide for present and future needs may be coordinated and constructed with proper timing. Many of the presently planned projects, such as Central Arizona, California Aqueduct Enlargement, Southern Nevada, Dixie, and the water salvage and conservation projects, must be initiated now in order to provide for urgent needs, while other features of the proposed plan may be initiated at later times to satisfy anticipated future demands. Timing is an important aspect of the plan because of the long period that must elapse between authorization of projects of this magnitude, and the time that water is made available. Each separate project must be started in sufficient...