Excerpt from Twenty-Seventh Annual Report of the Director of the United States Geological Survey: To the Secretary of the Interior, 1905 6 Water is the most valuable Of all the mineral resources of the United States. Upon no other single resource or group of resources is social and economic welfare so dependent, and to teach people how to utilize water resources is to promote their prosperity as it can be promoted perhaps in no other way. Investigations that furnish data concerning the amount. Availability, and character of water, whether from ground or surface sources. Should, therefore. Be maintained and encouraged by the General Government. 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.