When Loren McIntyre, South American traveler and explorer, asked a Mayoruna Indian where the source of the Amazon River was located, the Indian pointed skyward to the clouds. Advocates of weather modification likewise look to the clouds as a source of water to augment current supplies.

"A fish out of water" is a figure of speech expressing incongruity. At first sight, "Fish farming in the desert" might seem to express a similar sense of dislocation, even futility. But, in fact, fish farming or aquaculture is attracting interest in Arizona. Its supporters, few in number but committed, believe that aquaculture, a field relatively new to the state, has the potential to become a viable Arizona industry.

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According to the Bible, on the second day God gathered the waters so that dry land would appear. Before that time all was surface water. Surface water was all. With the appearance of land, the earth's hydrology became complicated. Groundwater thus formed, and a quandary begotten that challenges hydrologists and lawmakers to this day.

Beginning October 1974, the University of Arizona will become the fifth terminal station in the Office of Water Research and Technology (OWRT) network for retrieval of the Water Resources Scientific Information Center (WRSIC) bibliographic data base. States to be served by the University of Arizona are: Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah, and Washington.

At a meeting in Tucson several weeks ago, a Phoenix-based representative of a Federal agency lamented over the lack of information concerning artificial groundwater recharge in Arizona; yet very thorough research in this regard has been accomplished over the past ten years at the University of Arizona. Hopefully in the future, through the means of this newly initiated Newsletter and the Project Information Bulletins, water-related research efforts and results, other than those competently handled by the Agricultural Extension Service and others, will reach the attention of a greater number of interested users.

A vital part of the Arizona Water Information System program has been the cataloging of water resources projects conducted within the State of Arizona. To date over 1,000 projects have been identified and placed on computer file for retrieval.

On January 3, 1974 notices will go out soliciting proposals for water resources research projects to be funded under the Allotment Program of the Office of Water Resources Research, U.S. Department of the Interior. Director Sol Resnick of the University of Arizona Water Resources Research Center, through which Allotment funds are administered, is requesting that draft proposals for research to be funded for FY 1974-75 be submitted to his office no later than February 15, 1974.

The water requirements of coal conversion processes are a matter of increasing concern to geologists and water managers as the coal industry prepares to exploit coal reserves to meet national energy needs. A Geological Society of America symposium on the "Geologic Aspects of Coal Conversion" featured several papers estimating the amounts of water needed for processing.

A number of highly interesting research papers were presented April 19-20 at the Joint Annual Meeting of the Hydrology Section, Arizona Academy of Science, and the Arizona Section, American Water Resources Association. The sessions were held on South Campus at Northern Arizona University. Abstracts of papers given at the AWRA Section meeting will appear in the next two issues of the Arizona Water Resources Project Information Bulletin.