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Other States are likely to follow their path. After surveying
the urban water supply situation a few years ago, the Council
on State Governments concluded:
The new demands for water raise questions about
the adequacy of the existing divisions of responsibilities
for meeting the needs of users. Growing
urban populations and the expansion of industry are
major causes of the increase in water use. At
present urban concentrations and industry are
largely dependent upon local government and private
action to supply their needs. As their needs expand,
local and private resources may be unable to meet
the demands and states may find it necessary to
undertake water supply programs. 51/
More specifically, the requirements for river basin development,
problems of extraterritoriality, the spread of the megalopolis
and the urbanization of all or the greater part of a State enhances
the probability of increased State activity in the provision of
urban water supplies. River basin level planning and development
is clearly beyond the capability of almost all metropolitan areas.
And when river basins are interstate, the State, not the urban
areas, is represented on interstate agencies and is the prime
party in negotiations with Federal agencies.
The spread of urban development, the need to go farther
afield for urban water supplies, and the increased capital requirements
for such development, all reduce the capabilities of
individual municipalities and metropolitan areas to secure and
develop future sources of water on a unilateral basis. Megalopolitan
development has increased the competition among urban
areas for a single source of water. In their study of the
Delaware River basin, Roscoe Martin and his colleagues note that
the problem in the Delaware is "to resolve the intermingled water
supply problems of no less than four virtually contiguous metropolitan
areas.
The trend in metropolitan growth and spread throughout the
country suggests that the Delaware's problem may one day soon
become typical of other regions as well." 52/ When an entire
51/ Council of State Governments, State Administration of Water
Resources (Chicago, 1957)2 p. 65.
52/ Martin, op. cit., p. 22.
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