Lyndon Johnson: “In the next 20 years the world's demand for fresh water will double.”

This program, sponsored by the World Meteorological Organization, constitutes one of the largest and most complex scientific and technological undertakings ever attempted as an international effort.

Your reward--and it is coming--will be seen in the faces of children who will come down the road that you have helped to open.

Now, Therefore, I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States, under the authority vested in me by section 2 of the act of June 8, 1906, supra, do proclaim that, subject to valid existing rights, the lands owned or controlled by the…

In that pursuit, Mr. President, United States support will be gladly given.