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File Number
8282.400
Description
Colorado River Operations and Accounting - Deliveries to Mexico
State
CO
Basin
Colorado Mainstem
Water Division
5
Date
1/1/2000
Author
Robert Jerome Glennon - Peter W Culp
Title
The Last Green Lagoon - How and Why the Bush Administration Should Save the Colorado River Delta - Excerpted from Ecology Law Quarterly - Volume 28-Number 4 - 01-01-02
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Report/Study
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<br />OD1554 <br /> <br />910 <br /> <br />ECOLOGY LAW QUARTERLY <br /> <br />[Vol. 28:903 <br /> <br />the Delta will inevitably be pushed - permanently - past its <br />ecological limits. Thus, there is an urgent need to explore <br />methods to assure permanent legal protection of flows to the <br />Delta region. At the same time, increasing municipal demands <br />on the River make the provision of water for the Delta a <br />seemingly insurmountable task. <br />The health of the Delta also represents a growing <br />international relations problem for the United States. The <br />relationship between the u.s. and Mexico with regard to the <br />Colorado River has not been friendly; conflicts over water <br />quantity and quality - particularly salinity - plagued U.S.- <br />Mexico relations throughout the latter half of the twentieth <br />centuty.33 This conflict most recently erupted over the latest <br />version of the Colorado River Surplus Criteria,34 which, as we <br />shall argue, will almost inevitably reduce both the quantity and <br />quality of water that reaches Mexico, and threaten the continued <br />health of the Delta. Indeed, the newly-elected Fox administration <br />in Mexico recently protested then-U.S. Secretary of the Interior <br />Bruce Babbit's acceptance of the new criteria in his Januaty <br />2001 Record of Decision.35 <br />With a sense of urgency and opportunity, this paper provides <br />an overview of the legal regime that controls water distrtbution <br />on the Colorado River, documents the significant changes to that <br />regime that will take effect over the next few years, and analyzes <br />their probable impact on instream flows in the Delta. As we shall <br />argue, recent developments along the Lower Colorado indicate <br />that continued flows to the Delta and the Cienega are at serious <br />risk. <br />Given this concern, we evaluate four recent proposals for <br />securing water for the Delta: the Pacific Institute proposal, the <br />Defenders of Wildlife lawsuit, the Sonoran Institute proposal, <br />and the Michael Clinton Engineering proposal. We argue that the <br />voluntaty, purchase-and-transfer based models proposed by the <br />Sonoran Institute and Michael Clinton Engineering represent <br />practical, economical, and politically realistic options for <br /> <br />33. See discussion infra Part I1I(C) & V(B)(2); see also Marc A. Sinclair, The <br />Environmental Cooperation Agreement Between Mexico and the United States: A <br />Response w the PoUution Problems of the Borderlands, 19 CORNELL INT'L L.J. 87, 109- <br />11 (1986). <br />34. See discussion infra Part VI. <br />35. Record of Decision, Colorado River Interior Surplus Guidelines, 66 Fed. Reg. <br />7,772 (Dep't Interior, Jan. 25, 2001); see also Mexico Expected to Spend Billions of <br />DoUars to Ensure Adequate Water Supplies For Growing Population. SOURCEMEX EcON. <br />NEWS & ANALYSIS ON MEx., March 14, 2001, available at 2001 WL 10229503 . <br />
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