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September, 1980 THE CROSS SECTION Page 3
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You Never Miss the Water runs 30
minutes, and is also a 16mm color film.
It stars Joan Fontaine in a nuts and
bolts consumer education show on
how to cut water use in every sink in
the home in half without any change
in flow. The film suggests ways to save
more than 2,000 gallons of shower
water every year and 20,000 gallons
per year for each water closet. It is
very suitable for junior high and high
school science students: MP 55109 in
Lubbock, and MP 02 4292 in Amarillo.
Three copies of each film have been
provided by the District to each of the
Educational Service Centers in Lubbock
and Amarillo for distribution. To date,
the Educational Service Centers reports
that they have had 59 requests for the
films.
Near the end of the same 1979-80
school term the District began an effort
to provide Vocational Agricultural
teachers in our service area with water
conservation information to include as
subjects in their classroom education
programs. In all, 68 Vo.-Ag. teachers
were provided a set of pamphlets,
maps, bulletins and reports appropriate
for their county's current water prac-
tices and conditions.
We provided order forms for their
use in requesting classroom sets of
these materials. Some vocational agri-
culture teachers responded immedi-
ately, ordering additional materials late
last semester. A follow-up reorder form
mailed again this semester has already
begun returning new requests for
reports and maps by vocational agricul-
ture teachers.
These teachers may also order a
special film for their students which
the District has purchased in several
copies and provided to the Lubbock
and Amarillo Educational Service Cen-
ters for distribution. As indicated byties to help evaluate on-farm irrigation
efficiencies. Teachers can also arrange
field trips for in-field demonstrations
to see the tests conducted and hear
how irrigators are using them to evalu-
ate their total water management
systems.
In another cooperative activity with
the Soil Conservation Service, the Dis-
trict recently purchased 20,000 copies
of a newly released education comic
book, WATER: the basis of life, pub-
lished by the Soil Conservation SocietyIu
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WATER
FILMS HELP MAKE WATER
CONSERVATION STUDIES FUNSTUDY COUNCIL RESOLUTION
OFFERS STATES ASSURANCEof America. Five hundred teachers
guides to accompany the text were also
purchased. This publication has been
recommended for use at the fifth and
sixth grade levels. The District has an
agreement with the local Soil Conser-
vation Service for them to distribute
free classroom sets of the comic book
to schools in our service area. Over
16,000 copies have already been placed
in school classrooms.
Near the end of this past school year,
the Water and Power Resources Ser-
vices released a water resource educa-
tion guide for fourth, fifth and sixth
grade teachers. The title of this publi-
cation is Teaching About Water. It is
currently being made available free of
charge to schools in our service area.
To inform elementary science teachers
of the availability of this teacher's
guide, the Water District sent a letter
to elementary school principals in our
service area to advise them of the
publication and provided them with
postcards for requesting copies of the
guide. The Water and Power Resources
Service reports that over 400 requests
for copies of the guide had already
been filled by the beginning of this
school term.
Much more work needs to be done
to help educate our young people
about water and the need for water
conservation. We are continuing to
develop programs and materials to
meet those needs and are interested in
any exchange of ideas or materials to
enhance the students' water awareness
opportunities."Lying near the heart of the nation
and nourishing its vital agricultural
economy is the fertile High Plains
Region, a corridor 200 miles wide
touching vast expanses of Colorado,
Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Okla-
homa and Texas. Beneath the 225
thousand square mile area lie petro-
leum deposits and the Ogallala Forma-
tion. The Ogallala Formation, one of
America's major aquifers, contains on
the order of two billion acre feet of
water in storage; but over most of the
area, water is being withdrawn for
irrigation in excess of the rate of na-
tural replenishment."
Congress mandated a study of the
depletion of the natural resources of
the Ogallala Formation underlying the
six state region in 1976. Its intent was
to assure an adequate supply of food
to the nation, to promote the economic
vitality of the High Plains Region, and
to examine the feasibility of various
alternatives to provide adequate water
supplies to the area to assure the con-
tinued economic growth and vitality of
the region. Thus the High Plains Study
Council was formed.
Now a brochure is available which
outlines the problems faced by this
mid-section of the nation, the intent
of the High Plains Ogallala Aquifer
Regional Study, its objectives, responsi-
bilities, and the available difficult
choices for solutions. Also available is
a separate analysis for each of the six
states involved in the study, of related
economic factors which apply to that
state.
In Texas, distribution copies may be
requested from the Texas Department
of Water Resources Library, P.O. Box
13087, Austin 78711.the number of inquiries already re-
ceived by our office, this film should
get its share of good use this year.
Titled, Water on Demand, the film
was partially made here on the High
Plains. It illustrates different types of
well drilling techniques. It also shows
how water moves through the forma-
tion to a well, the cone of depression
created by pumping a well, and how
the cones of depression created by
pumping wells spaced too closely will
affect well yields, increase pumping
lifts, and increase energy costs. The
film catalog order numbers are MP 55
111 in Lubbock, and MP 02 5062 in
Amarillo.
An awareness of the latest water and
energy management techniques are
important for any student with an inter-
est in an agricultural related career.
The Water District, in cooperation with
the Soil Conservation Service, is offer-
ing to Vocational Agricultural teachers
and their students an opportunity for
a first hand look at some of the best
efforts we are making toward on-farm
water and energy savings by improving
irrigation efficiencies. Teachers can
request that their local Soil Conserva-
tion Service representative arrange an
in-school display of a Field Water Con-
servation Laboratory or mini-lab which
are being used in 15 High Plains coun-"Only those amounts of water esti-
mated to be surplus to present uses
and future needs will be recognized as
being potentially available for exporta-
tion to the High Plains-Ogallala Aquifer
Region," Herb Grubb told members of
the Missouri River Basin Commission
at a July meeting in Bismarck North
Dakota. Grubb, director of the Plan-
ning and Development Division for the
Texas Department of Water Resources,
was citing one of several provisions
included in a resolution adopted in
January by the High Plains Study Coun-
cil which is commissioned to study
possible supplemental sources of water
for the six state High Plains Region.
The Study Council, along with the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the
Economic Development Administration,
and others, is looking at four possible
diversion points for water from the
Missouri River at the South Dakota-
Nebraska border; from the Missouri in
northern Kansas; and from the Arkan-
sas-White-Red River system, with ser-
vice to states in the region whose
w a t e r resources are approaching
depletion.
In its January resolution, the High
Plains Study Council which includes
the six states of Nebraska, Kansas,
Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado and New
Mexico; stated eight diversion concepts
and assurances with regard to the
transfer of water from river systems to
the east of the region. They include:
1. The present uses and prospective
future needs for beneficial pur-
poses for the forseeable future in
the potential basin(s) of origin of
surplus water will be consideredas having prior rights to the
waters involved . . . Only those
amounts of water estimated to be
surplus to these present uses and
future needs will be recognized
as being potentially available for
exportation to the High Plains-
Ogallala Aquifer Region.
2. Existing compacts, water rights,
contracts and commitments will
be considered to remain in effect
in estimating exportable sur-
pluses.
3. Future upstream depletions and
future downstream flow require-
ments for instream uses will be
estimated in calculating potential
surpluses. Instream uses to be
considered include, but are not
limited to, fish and wildlife, navi-
gation, quality control, hydro-
power generation, recreation, and
aesthetics.
4. State water plans of downstream
states for development and utili-
zation of the waters in the
stream(s) involved will be taken
into account.
5. Needs of potential exporting
states for early project develop-
ment on the stream(s) involved
for instate purposes will be
examined in discussions with
those states, in terms of compati-
bility and possible integration
with a water transfer system.
Where feasible, early financing
and equitable cost sharing of such
projects will be considered as a
part of any interbasin transfer
plan. The possible integration
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