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CED-77-50 1 (1977-03-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaabtc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DOCUMENT REUUHE 00183 - [A10517431 Problems Affecting Useful:iess of the National Water Assessment. CED-77-50; B-171596. aarc 23, 1977. 16 pp. + appendix (1 pp.). Report to Secretary, Department of the Interior; by Henry Eschwege, Director, Community and Economic Develcpment Div. Issue 3rea: Water and Water Related Programs: UsG of Zxisting Kater Supplies (2501). Contact: Community and 3conomic Development Div. Budget Function: Natural Resources, Environsent, and Energy: Water Resources and Power (301). Organization Concerned: Water Resources Council. Congressional Relevance: House Committee on Putlic Works and Transportation; Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. Authority: Water Resources Planning Act of 1965 (P.L. 89-80; k2 U.S.C. 1962a-.1). Water Resources Development Act of 1974 (PL. 93-251). The Water Resources Council is conducting the 1975 National Water Assessment in cooperation with Federal, State and regional agencies. Scheduled for completion in December 1977, the project should cost $6.8 million. Problems have appeared raising doubts about the reliability and usefulness of the assessment. The agencies involved have been unable tc resolve some discrepancies in the water data and some have questioned the assessment's usefulness. Findings/Conclusions: The assessment is designed to identify future national and regional wator needs and compare Federal and State-regional viewpoints on such problems. The large discrepancies discovered when federally prepared data were compared with regional data developed because the accumulation of water supply and use data involves many factors, such as data sources, methodology, assumptions, and ludgments, which can ca,'se significantly different results. Recommendations: Thie Ccuncil should give full publicity and visibility to the objectives and intended uses of the 1975 assessment so that the final document is responsive, to the maximum extent possible, to the needs of the user agencies. The Council should reappraise the objectives of a periodic national assessment and the way it is carried out. It should also reappraise the methodology employed in developing national water data and improve Federal, State, and regional coordination in establishing a reliable data base. (Author/OH)

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