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1028 LAWS OF MARYLAND [Ch. 4
importing the plural include the singular;
(c) "writing" shall include printing,
typewriting, and every other method and manner in
which visual symbols may be permanently produced or
reproduced.
1.03. findings.—the legislative bodies of the
respective signatories hereby find and declare:
(a) the water resources of the basin are
affected with local, state, regional and national
interests and their planning, conservation,
utilization, development and management, under
appropriate, arrangements for intergovernmental
cooperation, are public purposes of the respective
signatories.
(b) the water resources of the basin are subject
to the sovereign rights and responsibilities of the
signatories, and the coordinated, cooperative or joint
exercise of such rights and responsibilities is in the
common interests of the people of the signatories.
(c) the water resources of the basin are
functionally interrelated, and the uses of these
resources are interdependent. a single governmental
agency is therefore essential for effective economical
direction, supervision and coordination of efforts and
programs of federal, state and local governments, of
other public bodies and of private enterprise, as they
may relate to water resources.
(d) the satisfaction of present and future
demand requires increasing economies and efficiencies
in the use of water resources, and these can be
brought about only by comprehensive planning,
programming and management under the direction of a
single governmental agency.
1.04. purposes.—the purposes of the signatories
in enacting this compact are:
(a) to help meet the essential requirements of
the present and future population of the basin; to
promote intergovernmental cooperation; to assure and
protect desirable developments within the basin; to
encourage cooperative and coordinated water resources
planning and action by the signatories and their
agencies; and to establish a joint agency of the
signatories to provide for the planning, conservation,
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