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Show 414 gram of comprehensive development along drainage basin lines.115 Moreover, it emphasized need for an inventory of water resources and brought together data on factors such as rainfall, run-off, stream-flow, and underground water.116 Eight monographs, each covering a region or group of drainage basins, were prepared and issued as supporting data.117 Following the submission of these reports, the Board's Water Planning Committee attempted a first priority rating of con- struction projects concerning water use and conservation.118 National Resources Committee.-Organized in 1935,119 the National Resources Committee, through its Water Re- sources Committee, later undertook a major study of drainage basin problems.120 In addition, special studies were made of particular river basins.121 The Water Resources Committee carried on a "clearing-house for water-storage and land-drain- age projects, for P. W. A. water projects, flood control projects, and investigations."122 118 Report of the National Resources Board, December 1, 1934: "That studies for water projects and programs for adoption by Congress be prepared on the basis of drainage basins as wholes and consider a great variety of water and land uses and controls." p. 5. "The more interdependent we become as individuals and as communities, the more do we need to plan the uses of water with all our interests in mind. What was done on a lake or a stream in one settlement did not much con- cern other settlements a hundred years ago; it may change living conditions vitally in other districts today, and a hundred years hence the interde- pendence of interests will be greater than it is at present." p. 26. "Until the country has some organization responsible for the continuous, systematic study of water uses in all their manifold aspects and in their bearing upon the life of every citizen, it will continue to spend huge sums for inadequate returns in well-being. The costs of such an organization as is suggested would make but a small fraction of the wastes avoided and of the gains secured by its work." p. 29. 116 Id. pp. 77, 292-360. 117 Watee Planning, National Resources Committee, p. 3 (1938). 118 IUd. 119 Ex. O. No. 7065, June 7,1935. 120 Drainage Basin Problems and Programs, National Resources Com- mittee (1936 and 1937 Revision). 121 Water Planning. National Resources Committee, pp. 3-4 (1938). Forty-five drainage basin committees were organized through the regional offices of the National Resources Committee. Id. p. 1. 332 Id. p. 5. |