Reclamation and Exploitation

Summary

VER H EAR O F RECLAMATI ON law' s 16 0-acre limi tatio n o n E water d eliveri es to irrigators? H ave you been told tha t this is " pe tty p o liti cal tyra nny," inefficient a nd uneco nom ic? Tha t because o f it the h o usewife p ays m o r e for foo d in the m arke t? T hat it is an o utmoded myth fro m bygone tim es ? Tha t it should be elimi- nated, as the Public Land Law R eview Commi ssio n, under form er Cong ressm an W ayne Aspinall, recommended ? (Mo re r ecently, Sen- ator Lee M etcalf o f M o ntana called this bo dy th e "Natio nal Water ed- Dow n Commis sio n" because the N ixon Administration r epl aced membe rs frie ndly to " the 160." ) O r have you h eard tha t th e 160 is a true co nservatio n instrument, essential if p ro perly used, for achi eving a d ecen t environme nt, eve n for p r eserving a d ecent rural soci ety from self-des truc tio n ? Ever hear that in Imperial Valley, w here th e law goes un enfo rced, alm os t nine o ur o f ten fa rm workers (8 7.3 percent) belo ng ro th e econo mi c lower class, co mpared to, say, Iowa, just o utsid e the reclama tio n belt, w here th e pro p o rtio n is less th an o ne in seven (1 3.6 percent)? Eve r hear that th e Sierra Clu b, jo ined b y Frie nd s

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