1.   Bates has formed a joint venture to provide services needed to develop deep water projects.

2.   Several large water resource projects are currently being planned while criticism is most in evidence.

3.   The federal and state government water projects are the two biggest suppliers in California.

4.   The federal Central Valley Project, largest water project in the nation, is the biggest single culprit.

5.   Also relevant to this dispute, the United States has constructed three large water storage projects in the Arkansas River basin.

6.   Approves the transfer of a Colorado River basin agricultural water project from the federal government to the Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation District.

7.   At the same time, as part of a war on pork-barrel spending, President Reagan cut nearly all money for water projects around the country.

8.   At the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and state water project pumps near Tracy.

9.   Before, the money went for water projects.

10.   Benpres Chief Operating Officer Xavier Gonzalez said his group may add additional partners to carry out the costly water project.