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% PRESS AND RADIO RELEASE, 6:30 P .M., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1949 PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCAST BY CtOVERNOR EARL WARREN AMERICAN BROADCASTING COMPANY NETWORK NOVEMBER 1, 1949 KOESTER: Governor, in a recent speech you were quoted as saying that in California we need to conserve the water from every snowflake and every raindrop that falls in our mountains, I'd like to spend our time this evening discussing - some of the reasons why you feel water con­servation is so important to California, and also some of the things you have been doing to expedite water utilization programs. GOVERNOR: Well, Mr, Koester, I can assure you the quotation you just gave is correct. The very existence of the economy we have built in California is dependent upon water con­servation. Water conservation has been the key to our achievements to date, and it is unquestionably the key to our future. KOESTER: You have been making that argument for a number of years, haven't you, Governor? GOVERNOR: Yes, I have told the story a good many times, here at home and before Congressional Committees, not only because I believed it to be.the duty of a governor to lead the fight for water conservation but also because I have, long been convinced that the people of California want the job done, and done as quickly as possible. In other words, I think.the people of California in recent years have come to realize that they are caught in a race--a daily struggle to keep water conservation in step with the demands of growth. Furthermore, I am con­vinced that they recognize the race to be a matter of state-wide importance and one in which the State govern­ment must assume leadership. Thirty years ago, when our