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Show -12- reservoir capacity in the United States is still steeply upward, but as observed in Engineering News-Record (1958), the point of ultimate development for hydro-power, irrigation, flood control, and navigation may be seen on the horizon. Water supply and pollution control may become the dominant objects of water storage. Although in the United States as a whole substantial increase in water supply can be obtained by additional storage development, water control by storage follows a law of diminishing returns. There is a limit to the amount of useful storage that can be built. The prospect of a shift in emphasis toward water supply for towns and factories sharpens the need for added development of storage in the populated regions of the country. The Colorado River Basin, on the other hand, is an example of a river basin where storage development may be approaching if not exceeding the useful limit. Future needs for storage capacity, to meet anticipated demands for water, challenge ingenuity in achieving efficient location of the added capacity. References Bureau of Reclamation, Colorado River storage project, House Doc. 364, 83d Cong., 2d sess., 1954. Engineering News-Record, Toward unity among developers, v. 205, Feb. 13, 1958. Langbein, W. B., Queueing theory and water storage, U.S. Geological Survey (in preparation), 1958. Thomas, N. O., and Harbeck, G. E., Reservoirs in the United States, U.S. Geol. Survey Water-Supply Paper 1360A, 1956. Woodward, D. R., Availability of water in the United States, with special reference to industrial needs by 1980, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, 1956-57. |
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Original book: [State of Arizona, complainant v. State of California, Palo Verde Irrigation District, Coachella Valley County Water District, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, City of Los Angeles, California, City of San Diego, California, and County of San Diego, California, defendants, United States of America, State of Nevada, State of New Mexico, State of Utah, interveners] : |