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<br />all 01 Amona. The Arizona ground water
<br />table has dwindled to near zero. Without
<br />new water supplies from the Colorado
<br />River-Arizona's appropriate share under
<br />compact-Arizona's future will, indeed, be
<br />bleak.
<br />Nader's task force has charged that Col-
<br />orado. in exchange for its support of the
<br />CAP, bargained for a group of projects in
<br />western Colorado. approved in the o,'era11
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<br />these projects, Colorado established its
<br />rights to waters it legitimately claims as
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<br />water rights to be gobbled up b;>' lower
<br />Colorado Basin states. Someday, the
<br />water will be put to beneficial .uses,
<br />whether for diversified agriculture or mu-
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<br />projects that have meant deprivation for
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<br />many Indian irrigators in the West have
<br />benefited from reclamation.
<br />Two major projects authorized by
<br />Congress that would be of inestimable
<br />benefit to Indians ha"e been delayed by
<br />the cost squeeze and curtailment in fund.
<br />ing, One, the San Juan.Chama.Na,-ajo
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<br />New :\[exico would irrigate a vast arid .
<br />area of the ~avajo Re~ervation in New
<br />Mexico_ The other. the Animas-La Plata
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<br />provide water for a large are-a of the Ute '.
<br />and Navajo reservations in the Four
<br />Corners region.
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<br />What the ~ader task force hopes to ae-
<br />compli~h by arousing Easterners and
<br />Southerners to fiRht future reclamation .
<br />works already has been large!)' accom. ,~:
<br />plished by the Nixon administration's -:.
<br />drastic curtailment of funds. Hardly '::
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