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<br />127 Also, see, e.g., policy statements in National Environmental Policy Act.
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<br />"(a) The Congress, recognizing the profound impact of man's activity on the interrelations of all
<br />components of the natural environment, particularly the profound influences of population
<br />growth, high-density urbanization, industrial expansion, resource exploitation, and new and
<br />expanding technological advances and recognizing further the critical importance of restoring
<br />and maintaining environmental quality to the overall welfare and development of man, declares
<br />that it is the continuing policy of the Federal Government, in cooperation with State and local
<br />governments, and other concerned public and private organizations, to use all practicable means
<br />and measures, including financial and technical assistance, in a manner calculated to foster and
<br />promote the general welfare, to create and maintain conditions under which man and nature can
<br />exist in productive harmony, and fulfill the social, economic, and other requirements of present
<br />and future generations of Americans. "b) In order to carry out the policy set forth in this chapter,
<br />it is the continuing responsibility of the Federal Government to use all practicable means,
<br />consistent with other essential considerations ofnationaI policy, to improve and coordinate
<br />Federal plans, functions, programs, and resources to the end that the Nation may - (1) fulfill the
<br />responsibilities of each generation as trustee of the environment for succeeding generations." 42
<br />U.S.c. 94331.
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<br />128 See, MacDonnell, Lawrence J., From Reclamation to Sustainability: Water, Agriculture, and
<br />the Environment in the American West, University Press of Colorado, 1999.
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<br />129 "Reclamation's goals are to manage, develop, and protect water and related resources to meet
<br />the needs of current and future generations while also operating and maintaining facilities safely,
<br />reliably, arid efficiently to protect the public investment." O.S. Department of the Interior,
<br />Bureau of Reclamation, Resource Stewardship, April 2000.
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<br />130 U.S.-Mexico Border XXI Program ("to achieve a clean environment, protect public health
<br />and natural resources, and encourage sustainable development along the United StatesIMexican
<br />border").
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<br />13l Regulations adopted in November 2000 implementing the General Law, Reglamento de la
<br />Ley General del Equilibrio Ecol6gico y La Protecci6n aI Ambiente en Materia de Areas
<br />Naturales Protegidas [http://www.ine.gob.mx/ucanp/index16.html].
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<br />132 Supra, note 78
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<br />133 Helsinki Convention on Protection and Use of Trans boundary Watercourses and
<br />International Lakes, Article III. Document; LL.M. 1392 (1992),
<br />http://www.unece.org/env/water/topfra1.htm (U.S. is not a signatory.)
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<br />134 Hey, Ellen, supra, note 79. "[The Watercourses] Convention fails to provide the means and
<br />ways to attain sustainable water use. It does not require that states protect basic human needs,
<br />nor that they develop integrated water policies, nor indeed does it provide minimum standards
<br />that watercourse states are to further develop through co-operation among themselves."
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