FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif.-Richard Atwater of the Inland Empire Utilities Agency and president of the Southern California Salinity coalition, Inc. recently testified at the Colorado River Salinity Control Forum about the goals and objectives of the Coalition. One of the Coalition's focal points is the need to control the salinity concentrations of the Colorado River, which provides nearly 30 million people with water. Salts dissolved in Colorado River water cause over $300 million damages each year. An action plan for a Salinity Management Study includes establishing source control salinity measures to reduce the concentration of imported supplies; controlling the local sources of salt; constructing brine sewers to export salts; and desalinating wastewater and brackish groundwater to allow the reuse and recycling of salinity-impaired local supplies and to reduce dependence on water supplies from the Colorado River and California State Water Project. For more information visit www.nwri-usa.org