The Cross Section, Volume 15, Number 8, January 1969 Page: 4
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Page 4 THE CROSS SECTION January, 1969
Mississippi River Water Plan
For Plains, N. Mexico ProposedThe continued article from the
November issue of THE CROSS
SECTION.
By GEORGE A. WHETSTONE
There exists, however, strong sup-
port in Canada for a wholly Canadian-
based entity which would develop sur-
plus Canadian water for sale at the
border. It is important to notice that
the commodity involved is water,
not water rights. Advocates of this
operation point out that Canada has
water which will be surplus for the
foreseeable future, and that sale of
water differs little in character from
sale of electricity, fish, timber, furs,
or crops. On the contrary, sale of
these renewable resources is far easier
to justify than is the sale of mineral
products - metals, coal, or petrol-
eum-all of which are being exported
without qualms at present.
As Professor Kuiper of the Univer-
sity of Manitoba emphasized in a
recent study (6), there exists a fore-
seeable surplus of some 200 million
acre-feet per year in Northwest On-
tario easily divertable to the Great
Lakes, and thence, to the Mississippi.
Another 100 million acre-feet per year
of water from the Canadian prairie
provinces could supply a system of
canals such as visualized in Tinney's
CeNAWP plan. Before Canadian
water can be made available, however,
Canada must determine ownership of
the water as between province and
Dominion. As you know only too
well from experience on the Rio
Grande and Colorado, interstate and
state-federal compacts are reached
slowly.
The existence of such water, how-
ever, would seem to indicate the via-
bility of a two-phase program for
watering New Mexico and West Texas:(1) Construct one or more of the
aqueducts from the Mississippi River
using the existence and potential pur-
chasability of Canadian water as in-
surance to the riparian users in the
Mississippi Valey that they will suffer
no deprivation.
(2) Construct the prairie canals of
CeNAWP permitting the substitutionof purchased Canadian water for that
now obtained by trans-divide diver-
sions from the Colorado River Basin
in New Mexico and Colorado.
Supply to the Pecos Valley calls
merely for handling larger quantities
in the aqueducts under study for sup-
plying the High Plains.
The first phase of Rio Grande sup-
ply could well take the form of a sub-
stitution downstream from the mouth
of the Pecas of water added to the
Pecos to replace the natural flow from
the mainstream of the Rio Grande.
Later, direct supply of the Rio Grande
could be incorporated in a project
largely underwritten by Arizona and
California to idvert Mississippi River
and/or Canadian water into the Gila
River.
REFERENCES
(1) TINNEY, E. ROY, "Engineering
Aspects" in a symposium: "Naw-
apa: A Continental Water System."
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
September 1967, pp. 8-27.
(2) U.S. BUREAU OF RECLAMA-
TION, Region 5. "Progress Report
on West Texas and Eastern New
Mexico Import Project Investiga-
tions." Amarillo, Texas. May
1968, 92 pp.
(3) ANON, "Colorado River Bill
Clears House." Engineering News-
Record. 12 September, 1968, p.
13.
(4) McNAUGHTON, Gen. A. G. L.
"A Monstrous Concept, A Diabolic
Thesis," in a symposium: "Water
Resources of Canada." Royal So-
ciety of Canada, 1967, pp. 16-24.
(5) KUIPER, Edward. "Feasibility
of Water Export." Proceedings of
the American Society for Civil En-gineers. Vol. 94, HY4. July 1968,
pp. 873-891.Water Is Your
Future,
Conserve It!Sun vs. Whitaker .
-continued from page 2
troyed some of Mr. Whitaker's grow-
ing crops.
(h) The reasonable cash market
value of Mr. Whitaker's crops which
were destroyed was $331.00.
(i) The reasonable cash market
value of the fresh water that Sun Oil
Company has produced from Mr.
Whitaker's farm for waterflood pur-
poses from the beginning of the water-
flood to the date of the trial is
$9,667.03.
(j) Sun Oil Company acted will-
fully and maliciously in producing
fresh water from the Whitaker farm
and using it for waterflood purposes.
(k) Mr. Whitaker is entitled to the
sum of $2,500.00 as exemplary dam-
ages.
At the date of this writing, a Judg-
ment has not been entered by the
Court. It is expected that both Sun
Oil Company and Mr. Whitaker will
ask the Court to enter a Judgment in
their favor and that a hearing will be
held on the Motions of these parties.Canadian River Water
-continued from page 1
Texas citizens must face up to at
some point in time if we are fortunate
enough to receive a never ending sup-
ply of good water. One Parmer
County farmer answered the question
of storage this way, "I'll give 'em
everything from the base of the gear
head to the red-bed if I can begin
takin' off ten foot of suction pipe ever
now and then instead of addin' it all
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THE CROSS SECTION
January, 1969
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High Plains Underground Water Conservation District No. 1 (Tex.). The Cross Section, Volume 15, Number 8, January 1969, periodical, January 1969; Lubbock, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1532926/m1/4/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.