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rzflrw "aA Monthly Publication of the High Plains Underground Water Conservation District No. 1
Volume 15-No. 14 "THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR WATER"
VOTE FOR AMEND
ON AUGUST E
Three former governors - Allan quired in the future as the massive supply needs for the next 50 ye
Shivers, Price Daniel and John Con- plan's details materialize. raised the question of how th
nally --- have joined Gov. Preston It is important to remember that should finance its part of this p
Smith in forming the Governor's Com- the bonds to be issued under this au- The experience of the e
mittee of 500 to urge approval Aug. thority will be repaid by water users. water development bond progra
5 of the revolving fund bond issue As they repay loans, the funds will ing back to 1957 showed the
authority needed to implement the be available for new issues. The re- ness of this approach. The mai
Texas Water Plan. volving fund concept for water proj- was to increase the top limit of
The amount of bonding authority ects began in 1957 when the first such ing authority to cover the half-c
asked in the constitutional amendment constitutional amendment was adopted ahead, hence the $3.5 billion a
up for voter action on Aug. 5 is $3.5 overwhelmingly. By 1962 it was ap- ment. This has received near-
billion. This is the estimated state parent that the maximum limit fixed mous approval from the 61st 1
share in the future cost of developing in that amendment was too low, so a ture. The people will decide th
reservoirs, canals and other features superseding amendment was offered ter Aug. 5.
to be needed in the implementing of and adopted to authorize up to $200 .
the Texas Water Plan. million in water development bonds. A complicating factor is th
Adoption of the water bond amend- As the Texas Water Plan took Aug. 5 constitutional amendme
ment will put Texas in position to shape, was amended, revised and ex- voting includes a dozen differed
match federal and local funds as re- panded in order to meet Texas' water posals on as many subjects.July, 1969
MENT 2
gars, it Smith and his predecessors know from
state their long experience in state affairs
lan. that when the legislature loads a con-
xisting stitutional amendment ballot with a
m dat- number of controversial subjects the
sound- tendency of many voters is to register
n need a negative answer on all of them.
bond- Thus the Governor's Committee of
entury 500 has been organized to carry into
imend- all 254 counties of Texas the urgency
unani- of saying "yes" to the water develop-
egisla- ment bond amendment.
e mat- To keep TEXAS the number one
STATE of the Nation in Industrial,
at the Population and Economic growth,
nt bal- everyone should SUPPORT and
it pro- VOTE for Amendment No. 2 August
Gov. 5, 1969.n Extinction
Mankind Bent Upon Effecting Its Ow
First of a 3-Part Series
By JOSEPH L. MYLER
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Man is
poisoning his world.
He has been labelled, with strong
justification, the dirty animal.
He has managed to make his rivers
rotten. He has transformed green
pastures into deserts. He has clogged
the air with chemicals which menace
health and dust which is changing the
climate. He is a menace to himself
and other species.
He has turned large areas of his
world into junk heaps, piled high or
layered deep with indestructible cans
or plastic containers. Americans alone
discard more than a billion tons of
solid waste a year and the total is
growing.
Man is beginning to face up to the
problem, but only slowly and against
great obstacles because of government
and industrial considerations.Unless he is willing to spend billions
upon billions to undo what he has
done - and perhaps even change
some of his basic ways - he really
may be gasping for breath in a few
decades.
In the developing nations, nearly a
billion people get their water from
unsanitary sources and half of them
get sick every year as a result. Even
in the United States, half the people
depend on water supplies which don't
meet federal standards or are of un-
known quality.
Rivers of so-called developed na-
tions have been turned into sewers of
civilization to get rid of unwanted in-
dustrial wastes. The oceans are being
contaminated with agricultural poisons
which drain into streams and are car-
ried away to the seas.
By exhausting warm water from our
power cooling plants into the ocean,
we are threatening marine life. Allalong we have drained the priceless
topsoil of our fields into silting rivers.
We have denuded many of our forests.
Dangerous Fumes
Millions of workers are exposed to
potentially dangerous concentrations of
dust, fumes, gases and vapors. No
one knows what the noise generated
by modern machines and cities is doing
to man's nervous system.
As J. George Harrar of the Rocke-
feller Foundation has said, "man him-
self is the greatest threat to his en-
vironment- . . . we have now suc-
cessfully begun to contaminate what
we have not yet destroyed."
None of this happened overnight.
Once the oceans were thought to be
endless, the land infinite and the
atmosphere limitless. Now man's sur-
vival is known to depend on how he
husbands a relatively thin layer of soil,
water and air tightly wrapped around
our planet's surface.Nature with its wind and water
erosion and climatic changes has been
alerting the environment for millions
of years. But the possibility that one
species might make the world unin-
habitable did not arise until 8,000
years ago when the hunter, who simply
ranged the land in search of food,
evolved into the farmer who plowed
and uprooted it.
Next came the city and then the
industrial society, which multiplied the
threat many times over.
Consider what man has done to
one indispensable element of our
biosphere - water.
Water in a sense is the most preci-
ous stuff on this planet.
Destroy Lakes
Yet we waste it, we polluite it, we
threaten the existence of replaceable
underground reserves which took
nature thousands of years to establish,
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