Book Reviews : Water: Measuring and Meeting Future Requirements. (Western Resources Papers 1960). Edited by HAROLD L.AMOSS. (Boulder: University of Colorado Press, 1961. Pp. 249. $3.50.)

• Published date: 01 December 1961
• DOI: 10.1177/106591296101400410
• Date: 01 December 1961
• Author: McCown E. Hunt
• Subject Matter: Articles

BOOK REVIEWS
Water: Measuring and Meeting Future Requirements. (Western Resources Papers
1960). Edited by HAROLD L.AMOSS. (Boulder: University of Colorado Press,
1961. Pp. 249. $3.50.)
The purpose of the committee which organized the Western Resources Con-
ference was to apply a regional approach to natural resources analyses on the basis
that the previous broad national approaches of these analyses had actually tended
to unduly weight regional factors. The regional approach, in which problems of a
specific area are considered in detail, would have a tendency to produce properly
weighted factual data which can be used and evaluated on a national level in
comparison with other regional data. Similar problems in different regions could
then be properly compared and their solutions expedited.
The committee that organized these annual conferences was originally con-
stituted in the spring of 1959 from the Colorado School of Mines, Colorado State
University, and the University of Colorado.
The 1960 Conference had only one theme -
Water Measuring and Meeting
Future Requirements. Papers presented and discussants covered a wide range of
issues. No attempt was made to focus the discussion on narrow issues, but con,
tributions to all the major aspects of water as a natural resource were encouraged,
and individuals participating came from federal and state governments, private
industries, private organizations, and universities. They considered the problem
based on their own backgrounds, which were both national and regional.
A
projection may be made from the results of this conference with respect
to America’s role in aiding development of other regions of the world. In other
areas as in the United States, water is the prime natural resource. The science of
its use and development, as it has taken place principally in the West, forms a sub-
stantial foundation for the utilization of techniques that have been found satisfac-
tory here in raising the standard of living in...