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Show Relief Model The Relief Model of the Upper Colorado River Basin and adjacent areas is available for display at conventions and other public events and has proved to be extremely interesting and instructive in promoting an understanding of the physical and hydrologic problems of the Upper Colorado River Basin and the development of its water and other natural resources, (See last page of this report.) Motion Pictures The motion pictures in the Commission's film library continue to be widely distributed. In addition to filling requests for the picture entitled "The Lakes Made For You" showing the recreational benefits of man-made reservoirs, hundreds of requests have also been filled for motion pictures about Glen Canyon and Flaming Gorge reservoirs and other river basin subjects by utilizing films that have been supplied to the Commission by the Bureau of Reclamation, et al. Widespread interest has been created in recent years by schools, colleges, civic clubs, etc., in the benefits of river basin development. Undoubtedly some of this increased interest can be traced to the fact that since the completion of Flaming Gorge, Glen Canyon, and Navajo dams and reservoirs the American public is becoming more aware of the national benefits of man-made bodies of water in the Colorado River Basin and elsewhere. An interesting addition to the film library during the past water year was the motion picture "Rivers In The Sky" made by the Bureau of Reclamation. This picture deals with research on atmospheric water and has proved to be popular as well as educational. Library Efforts are being continued to accumulate all types of engineering, legal, economics, and semi-technical documents related to the Colorado River Basin to comprise a well-equipped and efficiently operating permanent library. Many thousands of pages of documents have been placed on microfilm. Information in the Commission's library will be available to any of its member States on short notice should a need arise. Studies are being made and supplemented of many problems associated with the development, utilization, and conservation of water and hydro-electric resources of the Colorado River Basin. 40 |