"It may be true that hiterto the government has expected too much of water users, and it may be equally true that water users have expected too much of the government."

Abstract

"However that may be, there is surely a safe middle ground where neither shall expect too much of the other and where each shall be ready to recognize the other's due on the safe and solid basis of the needs and possibilities of the one and the fair and just compensation of the other; and all this without thought or suggestion of largess or of imposition."