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Show 28 WAR FOR THE COLORADO RIVER One of the major results of these conferences was the organization of the Colorado River Association of California.* The association was to be financed by six agencies which were consumers or distributors of Colorado River water and power. * * A representative of each of these agencies was a member of the Colorado River Board of California, a state body, and were appointed by the governor. A Six-agency Committee was formed to direct and supervise all expenditures of the association, to formulate its policies, and to authorize its activities. Designed as an information organization, the Colo- rado River Association took for its first major tasks the apprising of the people of the nation of the economic dangers it believed were inherent in S. 1175, and the informing of the people of California of the peril in which their water and power projects were placed by the proposed Central Arizona Project. Arizona also had created an organization to promote the project, called the Central Arizona Project Associ- ation. While it had the support of Arizona water and power agencies, it was also set up to receive contributions from the public. It accepted a dollar from the man in the street. The Colorado River Association of California was a * The first president was Preston Hotchkis, insurance executive; secretary was Ben P. Griffith, contractor; general manager was Don J. Kinsey, official of the Metro- politan Water District. A public relations staff was headed by Robert Lee. The author was sent to Washington as the association's representative there. An executive committee, the members of which served without compensation, was composed of prominent men and women from many business and professional fields. ** The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California; the Los Angeles Depart- ment of Water and Power; the Imperial Irrigation District; the Coachella Valley County Water District; the San Diego County Water Authority; and the Palo Verde Irrigation District. |