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<br />o <br />o <br />C!< <br />~.,. <br /> <br />available stream flows and reservoir storage, cut would often 8Gual or exceed <br /> <br />the hycropower va lues noted above. <br /> <br />Conclusion: Entitlements, Cost Incidence and Control Stratec1es <br /> <br />In the final analysis. Ue choice of strategy and the incicence of costs <br /> <br />for salinity control eepand upon who holds "rights" or entitlements for .ater <br /> <br />qualIty. <br /> <br />An entitlement defines which part:1es are responsible for saltnlty <br /> <br />control (Bromley). If there is no "right to pollute." then those responsible <br /> <br />for salt discharges must bear the costs; if pollution is a legal right. tl'len <br /> <br /> <br />those damaged by saltnity must ffnance the desired salinity control. <br /> <br />DOwnstream. R1Chts to Water r.u~l fty -- If the public (downstream users) <br /> <br />hale a r1gh"t to nondegraded water, polluters would be , iable 10 proport10n to <br /> <br />the1r contr1bution to salt load. <br /> <br />Th fs contribution might be C:eter:n1ned <br /> <br />accorcfng to the proportions of salts attr1buted by the Env1ronmental <br /> <br />Protection Agency to the major groups: 37~ from frrfgators in the Upper <br /> <br />Colorado R1ver basfn, 47% from hnds owned by the Federal governrr.ent, 121 from <br /> <br />reservofr evaporat1on (pr1marl1y lakes Powell anC: Meade), 3~ froll': water <br /> <br />exporters, and 1% from municipal water users. <br /> <br />8ecause a federal or regfonal agency 'Would conceptually levy the t<!}(es <br /> <br />upon salt d1scharges, cos't sharfng pol fc1es that dfstr1bute 371 of net scc1al <br /> <br />costs to Upper Basin farmers are of especial 1nterest here. <br /> <br />Seve ra 1 <br /> <br />possibil1ttes exfst. E1ther an increas1ng block water rate of 14.00 and S28.00 <br /> <br />per acre foot, along with 46~ cost sharfng, or fncreas1ng block water rates of <br /> <br />S4.00 and S14.00 w1th a S11.95 per acre-foot water conservation subs1dY .oula <br /> <br />achieve th1s level. Of course, each option has a d1fferent net socfal cost and <br /> <br />salt load red1,,;c't1cn. ^ salin1ty control program Should, from the allccat1'+'e <br /> <br />18 <br />