Pag-e 10
College Station, Texas
Thursday, December 10, 1965
THE BATTALION
Water
Supply
Studied
Improved management of pres
ent resources instead of weather
modification or desalting offers
the most practical solution to
water supply problems in the
near future, a Texas A&M water
use authority said this week.
Dr. E. T. Smerdon, one of the
lead-off speakers at the 20th an
nual Texas Turfgrass Confer
ence, said weather modification is
still largely in the dream stage.
Seawater desalting and brackish
water purification remain too
costly for many purposes.
Smerdon is director of A&M’s
Water Resources Institute.
About 250 persons attending
the three-day session heard the
speaker describe manageable wa
ter as that which falls on land
as rain and is subject to human
treatment until it evaporates.
He said Texas receives average
annual rainfall of 27 inches com
pared to 30 for the United States.
About 39.6 per cent of the state’s
water evaporates, which is 3.5
times the amount discharged into
the sea from streams. An esti
mated 45.9 per cent of rainfall
is lost by transpiration from
growing plants, 80 per cent of
which is lost through brush,
weeds and other non-economic
plants.
Texas also loses 148 million
acre-feet of water by evaporation
from lakes and streams. The
transpiration loss from non-eco-
nomic plants is 138 million acre-
feet. An acre-foot is one acre of
water one foot deep.
Smerdon said savings would be
tremendous if water evaporation
and transpiration were cut only
5 per cent. Water saved would
be 14.3 milion acre-feet per year
and would supply 7.6 million peo
ple at the 1964 per capita with
drawal rate of 1,675 gallons a
day.
He pointed out that the 14.3
million acre-feet, if obtained by
de-salting would cost about $1.3
billion at the current going rate.
“Recognizing that some gross
assumptions may have been made
for the Texas situation, the op
portunity for progress through
control of losses by the evapora
tive process is still truly fantas
tic,” Smerdon said.
For the U. S., he said it may
be necessary by the year 2000
to withdraw about 2.75 million
acre-feet per day from streams
and the ground. This is roughly
70 per cent of the 4 million acre-
feet per day available for use.
“The problem in the year 2000
will be untenable unless there
are some very significant man
agement and technological
changes by then. No doubt,
some changes will occur. The
question is, will enough changes
occur as a result of research be
tween now and the year 2000 to
permit our standard of living to
continue upward?” Smerdon em
phasized.
Other opening speakers were
Dr. R. E. Patterson, director of
the Texas Agricultural Experi
ment Station; Tom Mascaro,
West Point Products Corp., West
Point, Penn.; Dr. George Rice,
A&M School of Business Ad
ministration; Marvin Springer,
Hpringer and Associates, Dallas;
and Dr. J. R. Runkles and C. R.
Brooks of the A&M Soil and Crop
Sciences Department.
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