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Newsletter of the V.I. Planning Office and the V.l. Water Resources Research se ans Get Senos FES Caribbean Research Institute - College of the Virgin Islands St.Thomas, US.Virgin Islands 00801 809/774-1252 Ext. 250 Vol. 2, No. 6 Nov.-Dec., 1979 Edited By: Henry Smith ANNUAL REPORT; YEAR II With publication of this issue, WAA TA' completes its second year as the newsletter of the Virgin Islands Water Resources Research Center. Through this newsletter we have tried to keep our readers informedof our acti- vities here at the Center and of activities at other Water Centers on the U.S. mainland that might be relevant to readers in the V.I. We periodically review publications of interest and advise on how they may be obtained. Also, as part of our information dissemination effort we have regularly published monthly sum- maries of water statistics. It is our intent to continue pub- lishing WAA TA and invite com- ments and criticisms from our readers on how WAA TA' may be improved. Many persons and agencies have supported us during the past year. In particular we are grateful to the Public Works Department, the Water and Power Authority, Civil Defense, the Hess Oil Com- pany, and the Virgin Islands Housing Authority for regularly submitting monthly water use reports to us. We wish especially to thank Ms. Romanella Henry here at CRI for the great jobshe does in typing WAA TA' and Mr. Winston Charles and Mr. Wayne Crooke of the College's Duplicating Services Department for printing the newsletter We continually update our mailing list and encourage interested persons to call or write us in order to be added to it. * * * PUBLICATION OF INTEREST The Water Center recently obtained a copy of a very informative publica- tion titled "Rain Dance Doesn't Work Here Anymore or Water Use and Citizen Attitudes Towards Water Use in Albu- querque, New Mexico" by Peter A, Lupsha, Don P,. Schlegel, and Robert U. Anderson. The authors explain that the title is meant to convey the shifting realities of the urban south- west. The first inhabitants of this area lived in close harmony and pro- found awareness of basic resources, particularly water. Today urbaniza- tion has provided this resource in an abundance beyond the dreams of the "Old Ones," In the study, 345 respondents in single family residences were interviewed, and their attitudes towards water use com- pared with data from the computerized records of the city of Albuquerque on their actual water consumption. This comparative use data then formed the basis for attempting to discover what were the major factors in residential use in the city of Albuquerque. The study found that economic varia- bles such as income, house value and Yearly Rainfall (inches) Most . . . .90,46 in 1979 Least .. .34,27 in 1964 Average . .49.05 We will show a graph of this data in a future issue. Again many thanks for these data. Statistics for October and November 1979 Rainfall in Inches Oct. Nov. St. Croix A.H. Airport - 10.35 East End 1.74 9.93 Little Fountain 3.59 15.11 St. Thomas Fort Mlyner 7,58: =Lbs59 Dorethea 6.07 9.14 St. John Cruz Bay 3,35 11.53 Catherineberg 2.91 10.81 WAPA Water Production (Gallons) Oct. Nov, St. Thomas 22,068,318 18,151,974 St. Croix 0 13,837,368 A_THOUGHT PROVOKING THOUGHT Arthur W, Lewis, a native of St. Lucia and winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Economics.writes in Development Planning: The Essentials of Economic Polic thew York: Harper and Row, 1966): “One simple test of the quality of a development plan is to see what it says about water." We at the Center agree wholeheartedly.