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state /national Battalion/Page 11 October 15, 1982 Water shortage concerns experts * ! Water loss may leave states dry United Press International JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A Texas water control expert has ,tol(l two groups interested in wa ter conservation the efficient use of water must be developed, or much ol the Midwest and South west will be without it within the next 20 years. Dr. Herbert (irubb of Austin, representing the Army Corps of Engineers, told a joint meeting of the Arkansas-White-Red Basins Inter-Agency Committee and the Upper Mississippi River Basin Association, there was an estimated 3.2 billion acre feel of water in storage in the Ogallala Aquifer in 1977. The Ogallala Aquifer is a huge water source underneath Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico. However, Grubb said by the year 2020, some of those states, particularly in the southwest, will have depleted their supplies by 60 percent. "We can reduce the water loss in the Ogallala Aquifer by 40 to 50 percent through more effi cient useage,” he told the meet ing Wednesday. However, for the average far mer the increased efficiency cost will be about $35,000 per quar ter section of land. Experiments with compress ed air now are being carried out in west Texas and other places to release imprisoned water into the general water supply. They are much like high pressure wa ter injections being used to re- Experiments with com pressed air now are being carried out in west Texas and other places to release imprisoned water into the general water supply. They are much like high pressure water injections being used to release otherwise unobtainable oil de posits. lease otherwise unobtainable oil deposits. Robert L. Dunkeson, Water Resource Planner for the Mis souri Department of Natural Resources, told the second sec tion of the meeting the amount of water in the Missouri River is declining and will continue to decline. Missouri has joined with other states in a federal lawsuit to prevent South Dakota from selling Missouri River water to Energy Transportation Systems Inc. of Wyoming for use in a coal slurry pipeline. Dunkeson said his report was not to take issue with that, “be cause ETSI is not on trial here.” However, he said the plain fact was there was no surplus of Mis souri River water. “Low flow levels on the Mis souri River have a significant im pact upon navigation tonnage on both the Missouri and the middle Mississippi Rivers,” re ported Bill Ford of the Depart ment of Natural Resources. “Whether this low flow' is caused by drought conditions in the Missouri Basin or by the di version of Missouri Basin water for out-of-basin uses, the result is the same: a decrease in the navigation tonnages moved upon the river.” Full reports on water shor tages and usages should be out within a few months, officials said. They were prepared under a 1976 law passed through Con gress by former Sen. Harry Bell- mon, R-Okla. Vietnam vets win statue design battle United Press International WASHINGTON — A group of Vietnam veterans won a battle with architects and secured approval to add a statue of three combat soldiers and a flag to the nearly completed black granite Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The disgruntled veterans 'complained the initial Y-shaped monument was more a tribute to Jane Fonda and the peace move ment than those who fought and died in the nation's longest war. So, after nearly live hours of arguments Wednesday, the Commission on Fine Arts unani mously approved adding an 8- Joot-high statue and a 50-foot- high flag pole. There was no complaint from Maya Lin who designed the ini tial memorial consisting of a 450-foot, V-shaped wall of gra- nite engraved with the names of the’57,709 servicemen killed in the war. Although no final decision has been made on where to place the statue and Hag. I.in said it was her understanding they would lie placed about 300 feet ■ from her piece of art which re cedes into the ground on the 2- acre site. “Architecturally, the two could not mix, but there is enough room for two separate memorials,” she said. “And that is what we will have.” She again rejected criticism to her design, saying the memorial is “a tribute to those who died and served in the war” and “not to the war, the politics or the controversy" surrounding the conflict. Critics of the original design said it showed nothing of the American effort in Vietnam. The monument is to be dedi cated on Nov. 11, Veterans Day, during a four-day “National Sa lute” to all American veterans, expected to draw more than 250,000 persons. The statue, which will depict three battle-weary servicemen, won’t be completed until next year. It will be located between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument. The design for the wall, which runs from surface level down into a landscaped hollow at the V junction, was conceived by Lin in 1980, then a 22-year- old Yale University student, af ter a nationwide competition that attracted some 3,800 desig ners. Robert Lawrence, president of the American Institute of Architects, said the original de sign had been selected fairly and approved and should have been followed without alteration. But Jan C. Scruggs, a wound ed Vietnam veteran who became founder and president of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund three years ago, said veter ans had second thoughts on the memorial and opted for the sta tue and flag. 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