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Excerpt from New River Basin Comprehensive Water Resources Plan, Vol. 2: Economic Base Study Volume IV Water Resource Requirement Volume V Engineering Development Alternatives Volume VI Implementation of Development Alternatives The ultimate aim of river projects and programs, in common with all other productive activity, is to satisfy human needs and desires. The objectives of economic analysis in planning river basin and watershed programs is to provide a guide for effective use of the required economic resources, such as land, labor and materials, in producing goods and services to satisfy human wants by determining whether economic resources would be used more effectively than would be the case without the The following summary of chapters in Volume II is included for the benefit of those reading the volume who do not wish to examine the technical data and analyses in the Economic Base Study in detail° Chapter I contains a discussion of the shape of the future New River Basin and a look into the anticipated economy in the year 2020, Proposed Practices for Economic Analysis of River Basin Projects. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.