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<br />:. <br /> <br />I. <br /> <br />, <br />I <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />'. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />N <br />o <br />w <br />w <br /> <br />FOREWORD <br /> <br />After more than a decade of discussions and negotiations, the <br />Unitcd States of America and the United Mexican States have <br />reached agreement for a permanent and definitive solution to the <br />international problem of the salinity of Colorado River waters <br />delivered to Mexico under terms of the 1944 Water Treaty. <br /> <br />The provISIons of the agreement comprise the joint <br />recommendations made to their respective Presidents by the Special <br />Representative of President Richard Nixon, Ambassador Herbert <br />Brownell, Jr., and the Secretary of Foreign Relations of Mexico, <br />Lic. Emilio O. Rabasa, which were approved by the Presidents and <br />which are embodied in Minute No. 242 of the International <br />Boundary and Water Commission, signed and approved by the two <br />Governments on August 30, 1973. <br /> <br />The agreement climaxed an intensive effort by the United <br />States of America to examine all alternatives to enable a ncgotiated <br />resolution of the international problem. The examination was <br />conducted under the direction of Ambassador Herbert Brownell, Jr., <br />with the assistance of an Interagency Task Force. <br /> <br />The project for implementation of the United States measures, <br />both permanent and interim, required by the agreement, referred <br />to as the Colorado River International Salinity Control Project, is <br />presented in this report. <br />