Comments Following Review of Report on the Pacific Southwest Water Plan

Document: Draft No. 5, Nov 14, 1963 (carbon copy), page 12Even the importation of 1,200,000 additional acre-feet of water from the Colorado River into Arizona, will by no means meet the present need and demands for water in this State. In the future, other sources of water for use in this State must be developed. The second phase of your Plan suggests a number of ways and means by which additional water can be developed for use in Arizona. Particularly do I urge you to proceed as promptly as possible to give consideration to every means for developing additional water for use in Arizona, in addition to that which would be provided through the authorization and construction of the Central Arizona Project. Arizona does not concur in the estimate of water supply contained in the Pacific Southwest Water Plan. Arizona's estimate is much higher. I feel that there would be little to be gained by a discussion in this place of the technical aspects of figures as to water supply. Regardless of which forecast of future stream flow be 12Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 24 bit, 3,695,427 byte