Multiple-Purpose Reservoirs: A Symposium: State and Federal Government Participation

This paper presents some rather important aspects of the relations between the federal government and the respective state governments as they pertain to the question of multiple -purpose water resource development-one of the broadest of the several fields of joint federal-state interest. In fact, it would be difficult to name another that has a more direct bearing on the economic welfare and the security of so many individuals. In recent years this relationship has been the topic of considerable controversy and discussion which probably will grow in tempo as federal water control and development projects become increasingly more important in changing and shaping the economy and the national security. This matter is of particular concern to the engineering profession.