WSPC04953

• File Number: 8272
• Description: Colorado River - Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program - CRBSCP
• State: CO
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 4/1/1990
• Author: Joseph F Friedkin
• Title: International Problem with Mexico Over the Salinity of the Lower Colorado River - Excerpted from Water and the American West - Essays in Honor of Raphael J Moses
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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David Herrera Jordan, who earnestly sought for his country an
amicable solution to the problem, earns speeial recognition.
Certainly, one of the finest experiences of my career as
United States Commissioner of the International Boundary
and Water Commission was working and serving with many of
those people in the United States and with a number of people
in Mexico to resolve the Colorado River salinity problem. I am
grateful for having had that opportunity.

FOOTNOTES

1. Treaty for the Utilization of Waters of the Colorado, TlJuana
and Rio Grande Rivers, Feb. 3, 1944, United States~Mexlco, art. 10, 59
Stat. 1219, T.S. No. 994.
2 Id.
3. Ie!. art. 11.
4, Id. preamble.
S. Minute No. 218, Recommendations on the Colorado River
Salinity Problem, Mar. 22, 1965, United States-Mexico, 21 U.S.T. 2481.
T.IAS. No. 6988.
6. Minute No. 241, Agreement on Colorado River Salinity, July
14, 1972, United States-Mexico, 23 U.S.T. 1284, T.IAS. No. 7404.
7. Agreement on Colorado River Salinity Confirming Minute No.
242,Aug.30, 1973, United States-Mexico, 24 U.S.T. 1968, T.IAS. 7708.
6. Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act, Pub. L. 93-320, 88
Stat. 266. (1974) (codified at 43 U.S.C. gg 1571-1599 (1982 & Supp. III
1985)).
9. Pub. L. 93-320, g 101,88 Stat. 266 (1974) (codified at 43 U.S.C.
g 1571 (1982)).
. 10. Pub. L. 93-320, g 102, 88 Stat. 266, 268 (1974) (codified at 43
U.S.C. g 1572 (1982)).
11. Pub. L. 93-320, g 103.88 Stat. 266, 269 (1974) (codified at 43
U.S.C. g 1573 (1982)).
12. Pub. 1.. 93-320, g 108,88 Stat. 266. 270 (1974). ,
13. Pub. L. 96-336, ml4. 5.94 Stat. 1063, 1064 (1980) (codified at 43
U.S.C. g 1578 (1982)). $356,400,000 was appropriated for construction
and maintenance of the desalting plant, the concrete-lined canal and
the well fields. of which $10,539,000 was authorized for mitigation of
fish and wildlife losses.
14. See Proceedings of the Reconvened Seventh Session of the
Conference In the Matter of Polutlon of the Interstate Waters of the
Colorado River and Its Tributaries In the States of California.
Colorado. Utah. Arizona, Nevada. New Mexico, and Wyoming held In
Denver. Colorado. April 26-27, 1972.
15. Supra note 8, g 201. 88 Stat. 266, 270.
16; Supra note 8, g 208(b). 88 Stat. 266, 275.
17. Supra note 8.
18. 43 U.S.C. g 1571(c) (1982 & Supp. 1111985).
19. Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Dep.t. of the Interior. Colorado
River Basin Salinity Control Project: Background. Plan and Status
Report (July 1985)
20. ld.