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File Number
8278.400
Description
Title I - Mexican Treaty
Basin
Colorado Mainstem
Date
1/1/1973
Author
MWDSC
Title
The Mexican Water Treay (from Aqueduct, A Publication of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California)
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<br />, .. <br />.J ~~ ~ <br /> <br />INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY AND WATER COMMISSION <br />UNITED STATES AND MEXICO <br /> <br />Mexico, D.F., <br />August 30, 1973. <br /> <br />MINUTE NO. 242 <br /> <br />PERMANENT AND DEFINITIVE SOLUTION ~O THE INTERNATIONAL PROBLEM OF THE <br />SALINITY OF THE COLORADO RIVER. <br /> <br />The Commission met at the Secretariat of Foreign Relations, at <br />Mexico, D.F., at 5:00 p.m. on August 30, 1973, pursuant to the instruc- <br />tions received by the two Commissioners from their respective Govern- <br />ments, in order to incorporate in a Minute of the commission the joint <br />recommendations which were made to their respective Presidents by the <br />Special Representative of President Nixon, Ambassador Herbert Brownell, <br />and the Secretary of Foreign Relations of Mexico, Lie. Emilio O. Rabasa, <br />and which have been approved by the Presidents, for a permanent and <br />definitive solution of the international problem of the salinity of the <br />Colorado River, resulting from the negotiations which they, and their <br />technical and juridical advisers, held in June, July and August of 1973, <br />in compliance with the references to this matter contained in the Joint <br />Communique of Presidents Richard Nixon and Luis Echeverria of June 17, <br />1972. <br /> <br />Accordingly, the Commission submits for the approval of the two <br />Governments the following: <br /> <br />RESOLUTION: <br /> <br />1. Referring to the annual volume of Colorado River waters guar- <br />anteed to Mexico under the Treaty of 1944, of 1,500,000 acre- <br />feet (1,850,234,000 cubic meters): <br /> <br />a) The United States shall adopt measures to assure that not <br />earlier than January I, 1974, and no later than July I, <br />1974, the approximately 1,360,000 acre-feet (1,677.545,000 <br />cubic meters) delivered to Mexico upstream of Morelos Dam, <br />have an annual average salinity of no more than 115 p.p.m. <br />~ 30 p.p.m. U.S. count (121 p.p.m. ~ 30 p.p.m. Mexican <br />count) over the annual average salinity of Colorado River <br />waters which arrive at Imperial Darn, with the understanding <br />that any waters that may be delivered to Mexico under the <br />Treaty of 1944 by means of the All American Canal shall <br />be considered as having been delivered upstream of Morelos <br />Dam for the purpose of computing this salinity. <br /> <br />b) The United States will continue to deliver to Mexico on <br />
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