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Shortage of water will soon stop the increase in population and industry in the West, DeVoto claimed. "Either Arizona or California will have to stop expanding, and then both will," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: West Needs to Conserve Critical Water Supply or Face Collapse, DeVoto Warns | 11/10/1955 | See Source »

...Western United States, and therefore the country as a whole, faces bank-ruptcy and disaster if today's meager water supplies are not carefully conserved, prominent historian and author Bernard DeVoto '18 warned last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: West Needs to Conserve Critical Water Supply or Face Collapse, DeVoto Warns | 11/10/1955 | See Source »

Since the West exists on the "knife-edge of natural sanction," DeVoto said, "there is no margin of flexibility in violation of conservation laws." The former Pulitzer prize winner in History spoke before over 100 people in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: West Needs to Conserve Critical Water Supply or Face Collapse, DeVoto Warns | 11/10/1955 | See Source »

...therefore essential to retain the the vast forests on mountain sides, the only natural watersheds of the West, DeVoto said. Special interest groups have always sought to destroy these natural protections, however, and today under the Republican administration they have obtained powerful influence in the governmental control agencies, he added to the audience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: West Needs to Conserve Critical Water Supply or Face Collapse, DeVoto Warns | 11/10/1955 | See Source »

...special interest groups get control of these lands the West will be bankrupt in less than a generation," DeVoto predicted. "The problem is that of preserving the West, not just the beauty of the forests. If the West goes bankrupt, so will the rest of the country," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: West Needs to Conserve Critical Water Supply or Face Collapse, DeVoto Warns | 11/10/1955 | See Source »

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