Summary of the Pacific Southwest Water Plan

Document: Draft of the "Summary of the Pacific Southwest Water Plan", August 1963 (carbon copy) page 820. The Pacific Southwest is now at the crisis point in meeting its growing demands for water. A renewal of the old fight over water resources will stall the region beyond the crisis point. The hopes for the future economic growth and development of this great region are wrapped up in the selected plan or one of its alternatives presented in this report. To implement this plan requires a "can do" philosophy, a confidence in American and in its future. It requires new concepts of land and water management. It requires a new spirit of cooperation and coordination among the diverse Federal, state and local interests in this growing region. It requires water statesmanship of the highest order. Indeed, either we will prosper together, or we shall shrivel separately. 8Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 3,116,717 byte