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<br />001547 <br /> <br />The Last Green Lagoon: How and Why <br />the Bush Administration Should Save <br />the Colorado River Delta <br /> <br />Robert Jerome Glennon* and Peter W. Culp** <br /> <br />Introduction.......................................................................... 905 <br /> <br />I. The Law of the River .....................................................912 <br />A. The Colorado River Compact and the Mexican <br /> <br />Water Treaty....... .... .................... ..... ............... ........913 <br /> <br />1. The Upper Basin... ................... ...................... ....917 <br /> <br />Copyright @ 2002 by the Regents of the University of California <br />* A.B.. 1966. J.D.. 1969. Boston College; M.A.. 1972. Ph.D.. 1981, Brandeis <br />University. Professor Glennon is the Morris K. Udall Professor of Law and Public <br />Policy at the James E. Rogers College of Law. the University of Arizona. <br />** B.A., 1994. University of California. Santa Cruz; J.D.. 2001, the University of <br />Arizona. Mr. Culp is an attomey with the Environmental Law Department of Squire. <br />Sanders & Dempsey, L.L.P.. in Phoenix. Arizona. <br />In September 2000. we first presented this paper as the keynote address at a <br />three-day symposium. . . . to the Sea of Cortes: nature. water. culture. and livelihood <br />in the Lower Colorado River Basin and Delta, in Riverside. Califomia. jointly <br />sponsored by the Ford Foundation. the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - <br />Region 9. the U.S. Department of the Interior, UC MEXUS. the University of <br />California Office of the President, the Morris K. Udall Foundation. and the Centro de <br />Investigaci6n y de Educaci6n Superior de Ensenada (CICESE). <br />We are grateful for comments and suggestions made by John M. Bemal, Marta <br />Macias Brown. Steve Comelius. David Gantz. David H. Getches. Eric Handler, <br />Malissa McKeith. Robert F. Snow. William H. Swan. Alberto Szekely. and Martha P. L. <br />Witaker. Edina Strum. class of 2002, James E. Rogers College of Law. the University <br />of Arizona. provided initial help with the footnotes. We are also grateful to Dean Toni <br />M. Massaro. of the James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona. for <br />financial support. In preparing the manuscript for publication. it was a pleasure to <br />work with Ecology Law Quarterzy's Ryan Waterman. <br />Finally, Peter Culp owes a particularly deep debt of gratitude to Luther Propst <br />and Steve Comelius of the Sonoran Institute. who hired Mr. Culp - then a first-year <br />law student - to write a report on the Law of the River and the limitations it would <br />impose on water transfers to the Colorado River Delta. This report was awarded the <br />2000 Lillian S. Fischer Prize in Environmental Law and Public Policy by the Udall <br />Center for Studies in Public Policy. The Udall Center subsequently published an <br />expanded version of the report. and generously funded the development of a <br />summary version of the Sonoran Institute Report for the benefit of participants at the <br />September 2000 symposium. . .. to the Sea of Cortes: nature. water. culture. and <br />livelilwod in the Lower Colorado River Basin and Delta, in Riverside. Califomia. <br /> <br />903 <br />